Division of Electronics and Computer Engineering (ELDA)

At ELDA we conduct research and teaching in multiple electronics related areas. We do both analog as well as digital electronics, but also the in-between area mixed-signal, programmable electronics and processor design. Among the applications are radio electronics and problems from medical engineering.

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This group has many years of experience withing these research areas and has contributed with innovative circuit and system solutions at the international forefront. In addition to lots of publications and patents, our research results have been utilized in advanced commercial products such as microprocessors, wireless sensors, internet routers, CMOS cameras, data acquisition systems, and more.

This also includes digital logic, different kinds of processors, multiple processors, and system on chip integration from job analysis on high system level down to RTL or gate micro architecture level of VLSI implementations. This research focuses on design of ASIP (application specific instruction set processors) and OCMP (on-chip multiple processors) for embedded applications. We are especially interested in memory and power issues of multi-processor architectures under specific flexibility.

We aim to push the limits of performance and energy-efficiency of critical circuit and system structures which often are bottlenecks to overall performance of systems. We are particularly interested in design and implementation data converters, analog front ends, sensor readout and data acquisition systems, energy-harvesting and power management systems, analog/digital baseband and RF frontends for radio transceivers, and low-power wireless sensors. We have also a strong background and long experience in design of advanced digital computing/signal processing circuits and systems, as well as on-chip networks and memories.

Being an application-driven research group, we have a long tradition of close collaboration with national and international companies. Our projects support a wide range of application areas, e.g. communication, computing, healthcare, safety and security, energy management, automotive, avionics, smart consumer electronics, Internet of Things, and more.

Design of electronics systems hardware requires broad knowledge and skills across various engineering fields. We have close collaboration with several strong research divisions at our department (ISY) as well as at the department of computer engineering (IDA). Together, we cover almost all aspects of electronic system design, and we are capable to tackle large multi-disciplinary system design projects, e.g. medical engineering cooperation with Karolinska Institutet.

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Education

We provide teaching in Electronics and Computer Engineering for MSc and BSc educations in Linköping.

Especially, we provide several courses on the BSc program in electronics and we ar responsible for the electronics specializations of the MSc programs Applied Physics and Electrical engineering (Y) as well as Computer Engineering (D). Furthermore, we are responsible for the MSc program Electronics Engineering.

We provide approximately 40 courses, from basic to advanced level. They span analog design, RF design, PCB-design, and also digital design, programmable electronics and processor design. We are proud of being the group behind Linköping University's internationally renowned education and research on integrated electronics.

Our international master program and program-profiles in electronics offer large project courses, providing excellent opportunities for students to improve their design skills by using modern design environments. For example, in the project course VLSI Design, students design 'real' chips. These are sent for fabrication during the summer break, measured and evaluated in a follow-up course during the subsequent autumn. Only a few universities in the world have the know-how and capability to provide such courses.

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Publications

2024

Frans Skarman, Oscar Gustafsson (2024) Scalable FPGA Implementation of Dynamic Programming for Optimal Control of Hybrid Electrical Vehicles DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURES FOR SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING, DASIP 2024, p. 27-39 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Mahdieh Grailootanha, Tooraj Nikoubin, Oscar Gustafsson, Jose Luis Nunez-Yanez (2024) Activation Function Integration for Accelerating Multi-Layer Graph Convolutional Neural Networks 17TH IEEE DALLAS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, DCAS 2024 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Habib Taha Kose, Jose Nunez-Yanez, Robert Piechocki, James Pope (2024) A Survey of Computationally Efficient Graph Neural Networks for Reconfigurable Systems Information, Vol. 15, Article 377 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Natachai Terawatsakul (2024) Optimal Design of Planar Micro-NMR Coils for High Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Zichao Shen, Jose Luis Nunez-Yanez, Naim Dahnoun (2024) Advanced Millimeter-Wave Radar System for Real-Time Multiple-Human Tracking and Fall Detection Sensors, Vol. 24, Article 3660 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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The Division is a part of Department of Electrical Engineering