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Electrical Engineering Department
Electronics
Computers
Communications
Technion
Israel
Institute of
Technology
Teaching and Research Laboratories
Fishbach Building
Bella Mayer Building
Experiments and projects that are performed by students
in the department's labs play a central role in their
engineering education. In these labs the students are
challenged by topics like: Network on a chip, Smart
robots, Digital watermarking of audio and video, Micro
photonic components, Automatic recognition of "offside"
in a soccer game, Brain-computer interface, Narrowing
of light pulses, Reliable computers for satellites, Distributed
and reliable software, Determining geographic location
in a wireless network and more….
The labs train the students and prepare them to their
work as engineers in the hi-tech industry. Many projects
are indeed done with the cooperation of this industry.
The students can elect their projects from a wide variety
of projects in the different labs, as part of their study
program.
Student projects are presented in conferences and
competitions and gain national and international
recognition.
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TEACHING AND
RESEARCH LABORATORIES
ELECTRONICS
Control and Robotics
Electro Dynamics
Electro-Optics
ORIGINALITY
EXCELLENCE
CREATIVITY
High Speed Digital Systems
Microelectronics
Optoelectronics
Organic Materials and Devices
COMPUTERS
Computer Graphics & Multimedia
Computer Networks
Computer Vision and Image Sciences
The Best Laboratory project
Parallel Systems
Software Systems
VLSI
COMMUNICATIONS
Communication
Computational Electromagnetics
Physiological Signal Processing
Signal and Image Processing
The Best Faculty Project
Technion Creativity Contest
Best Paper Awards
International Prizes
Professional workshops
Electrical Engineering Department
Electronics
Computers
Communications
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Optical communication
in fibers and in space
Nano-photonics, Quantum communication, and
Short optical pulse generation
Research and Teaching areas
Optical communication
• High bit-rate optical fiber communication for thousands
of km distance.
• Inter-satellite optical communication in space.
• Advanced components for optical communication.
• Ultra short optical pulse generation, and their
application in basic science, communication and signalprocessing Integrated Optics.
• Nano optical devices.
• Nano-Plasmonics – a route to nano-sized optical interconnects.
• Mode-Division Multiplexing: Novel optical interconnects using multimode waveguides Optoelectronics.
• Semiconductor and fiber optical amplifiers.
• Miniaturized atomic clocks for use in advanced GPS
systems and satellites.
• Slow light – controlling light speed for optical memory
devices.
• Blue and Green semiconductor lasers for use in optical
memories.
• Non-linear optical particles – temporal and spatial
solitons Quantum communication.
• Quantum optical communication and cryptography
– transmission and manipulation of single photons
over quantum encrypted channels.
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Optoelectronics Laboratory
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Electro-Optics Laboratory
An electrifying junction of high-technology
and physical research
The field of Electro-Optics (Opto-Electronics) is
a most important focal point for research and
high-tech activities. Electro-Optical concepts,
devices and systems, like lasers, fiber-optics,
nonlinear optics and wave mixing became
essential parts of many areas, such as
communications, micro-electronics and nanoelectronics, computing, signal and data
processing, information storage, sensing, vision,
material and medical diagnostics, probing and
processing, and more. Electro-Optics is a vital
part in almost any physical layer in high-tech and
research.
At the Technion EE Electro-Optics laboratory
we work on:
Optical Fiber Communication:
Nowadays, communication rates in fiber-optic networks reach the
gigantic range of 1013 bit/sec and beyond in a single fiber along
thousands kilometers.
This is a physical fundamental base for the modern information Highways.
We work on various aspects of fiber-optics, light propagation in fibers,
lasers, nonlinear effects and devices, WDM, light and signal processing.
Research and application of ultra-short optical pulses:
Todays shortest manmade light pulses reach the one light-wave cycle
range with durations of a few femto (10-15)-sec. These pulses are used
to produce even shorter durations of hundreds of atto (10-18)-sec at
the extreme UV and X-ray regimes. Such pulses can feel the electron
motion around atoms.
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Non-linear optics, optical wave- mixing, Optical storage and
Electro-optical and all-optical information processing:
Present optical methods allow information storage capacities of about
1013 bit/cm3. In addition, optical data processing and retrieving using
various nonlinear materials, including fiber glass media, can be done
at speeds that are several orders of magnitude higher then than
electronic devices and systems.
We work on nonlinear methods and materials and their use for
sophisticated information handling.
This is a future base for ultra-high speed data processing.
Basic Physical Approaches in Optics and Lasers based on
Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics:
New physical methods in Optics provide powerful means to investigate,
understand and predict new phenomena and to develop new
technologies. An example is recent research in our lab that shows
that the behavior of light pulses in lasers is similar to the meltingfreezing process and magnetic formation.
This is a ground for an exciting intertwinement between basic science
and future technology.
The Electro-Optics laboratory is equipped with modern optical and
electronic apparatus, lasers and fibers.
Projects and research work are offered to both undergraduate and
students, as well as graduate M.S. and Ph.D students. The topics
cover the above mentioned technological and applied and research
areas.
Electro-Optics Laboratory
We work on short pulse generation in lasers, their characterization,
measurement and time-domain operations.
This is an important frontier both in the time and the space domains for
modern and future nano-science and nano-technologies.
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Electrodynamics
In the framework of the Laboratory a variety of
electromagnetic phenomena are investigated as well as
the interaction of electromagnetic fields or waves with
matter including electrons, dielectric materials and
living tissue. Among the topics:
1. The interaction of electromagnetic fields and waves with the human body:
a. Investigation of the effect of microwave radiation on the eye lens.
b. Effect of very low frequency magnetic fields on neural cells.
2. Sources of free electrons and their characterization
a. Optimal field emission from a periodic metallic surface
b. Enhanced field emission in the vicinity of a triple-point
(vacuum, dielectric and metal).
c. Electron emission from ferro-electric ceramics.
3. Sources of electromagnetic radiation
a. High power microwave sources
b. Compact radiation sources
c. X-ray sources of radiation based on free electrons
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a. Forces on an optical fiber
b. Optical spring and Bragg waveguides
5. Advanced acceleration concepts
a. Particle acceleration by stimulated emission of radiation
(PASER)
b. Wake fields due to dielectric and metallic bodies
c. Optical acceleration structures
Electrodynamics Laboratory
4. Electromagnetic forces on neutral dielectric bodies
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STOP!
Smart Robots and Systems Ahead
From building and programming autonomous robots
to aircraft guidance and control – the Control and Robotics
Laboratory offers state-of-the-art technology challenges
for students and researchers. Here we do not think like
robots – we invent them!
Our primary mission is to promote hands-on student
education, in the fields of control and robotics. We
emphasize a system oriented approach, which combines
hardware, software and mechanical design, in order to
implement integrated systems that can function in the
"real" world outside the computer.
Fields of education and research:
We are conducting a variety of undergraduate and
graduate students projects in the following fields:
- Feedback control systems – linear, non-linear, neural
networks, fuzzy logic, adaptive control.
- Autonomous robots – sensing, navigation
and control.
- Visual tracking systems.
- Learning systems – Reinforcement Learning.
- Control of robotic manipulators.
- Digital controller hardware and software.
Undergraduate teaching activities:
We offer an extensive laboratory course on control
engineering, which is part of the specialization
requirements in the area of control systems. We also
offer introductory experiments to control engineering,
which are open to all students. A major part of the
laboratory teaching activities is centered on student
projects which are usually taken during their 4th year.
The laboratory supports up to 30 projects per semester.
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Facilities:
The laboratory holds a wide array of equipment which
includes mobile robots, industrial robots, video cameras,
frame grabbers, controlled mechanical systems, various
sensors, computer stations for digital control and
standard test and measurement equipment.
From academy to industry:
Many of the projects in the laboratory are initiated
and supervised by people from industry. The laboratory
is working on projects with companies like IBM, Rafael,
Elbit, Friendly Robotics, Unitronics, etc.
Control and Robotics Laboratory
Laboratory staff:
The laboratory is headed by two faculty members. The
permanent laboratory staff included the Laboratory
Engineer and a Practical Engineer.
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Let's Establish
the Carbon Valley
Organic Electronics encompasses electronic and
optoelectronic devices which are largely based on
organic materials (sometimes called plastic) and
is a field that incorporates both micro and nano
electronics. This field, which is constantly evolving,
makes some people believe that the Silicon Valley
will be replaced by the Carbon Valley. This constant
evolution emphasizes the importance of the
material (molecule, polymer, nanocrystal) in
dictating device performance and functions.
Therefore, this field requires cooperation and crossfertilization with disciplines that emphasize the
material properties on the molecular level as
chemistry, chemical engineering, biology, and
material engineering. As the physical processes
driving the device are different to the classic ones
it is important to go back to principles and a good
knowledge of physics is required. To create the
right and effective mix of the various fields a good
and deep understanding of the tools characteristic
of the modern electrical engineer are essential.
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• Development of new device architectures and processing
procedures. For example thin and flexible transistors that will
form the backplane of the rollable color display; Bio-chemical
sensors or "electronic nose"; and near infrared active devices
(imaging or emission).
• Development of advanced experimental techniques in time or
frequency domain that enable a closer look at the underlying
physical processes. And of course the study of these processes.
• Development of analytical and/or numerical models that describe
the physical processes as they appear in a working device. This
is many times essential to really decipher the experimental data
in a useful manner.
• Study the relation between the chemical structure of materials
and their functionality. By nature we are also involved in the
development of new materials having new or better
functionalities.
Organic Materials and Devices Laboratory
The research in the organic materials and devices laboratory is
versatile and includes:
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The Smaller the
Better
Microelectronics involves the miniaturization and
integration of electronic devices. This technology enables
the production of computers, digital cameras, cellular
phones and many other electronic products. All of them
are made of semi-conductor chips with millions of
transistors. Researchers in the Microelectronics Laboratory
are investigating novel devices made of various
semiconductor materials, such as Indium-Phosphidebased fast transistors, IR detectors based on quantum
dots, and MEMS devices for medical applications.
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The Laboratory provides technical support for the course “Processes in
Microelectronics,” that enables a selected group of students to gain handson experience in microelectronic processes. In this laboratory course, small
groups of four students make use of the sophisticated equipment to implement
microelectronic devices. The Microelectronics Laboratory also offers projects
where students can implement, characterize or simulate microelectronic devices
that are related to the various research topics under investigation.
About 15 faculty staff members are involved in the various research topics that
focus on:
• The growth of epitaxial crystal layers in semiconductors. These processes
provide the possibility of engineering the electronic properties of the material
in order to build better devices.
• The investigation of materials based on “quantum dots.” These are crystals
that have inclusions the size of a few hundred molecules made of a different
material. This type of inclusion behaves, electronically, like a large atom.
• The investigation of very fast devices for electronic and optical communications.
• The investigation of electro-mechanical devices made of silicon-single crystals.
These devices can combine mechanical properties with electro-optical
properties.
Microelectronics Laboratory
In order to implement devices having sub-micrometer features (1 micro-meter
= 1/000 millimeter; the diameter of a hair is 25 micro-meters), it is essential
to work in a dust-free environment. The work is done in “clean rooms” (the
Micro-Nano Fabrication Unit –MNFU) where the air is filtered, and the workers
are fully gowned, including head covers, face masks and gloves. The special
equipment in these labs enables to complete the processing in a dust-free
atmosphere and with high precision.
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HS DSL
Faster than ever
From home entry system, to satellites in
space. From slow medical systems to
guidance systems for rockets. This is the
home of the fast digital systems
laboratory. Here we develop and
designed design the system of the future.
Students of our lab gain
experience and understanding
of system architecture while
there they are in undergraduate
studies. Graduates of the lab
manage sophisticated projects
in the industry, and are
recognized as leaders in system
engineering.
Research and training
The training in the high-speed digital systems
lab allows students to become experienced
in the design and implementation of
complicated systems.
Graduates of our lab gain experience and
understanding of system architecture while
developing there their projects. As head of
projects involving system engineering, Our
lab graduates are industry leaders., managing
numerous system engineering projects.
Our students develop of today develop the
high hi-tech products of tomorrow.
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Contacts with industry
Our lab maintains close relationships
relationship with the high hi-tech industry in
Israel and abroad. This relationship yields fresh
ideas and new technologies, that are at the
cutting edge of technology creativity. The
industry uses the lab as a platform to test new
ideas that mold future technology. The staff
of the lab has lab staff maintains a close
working relationships relationship with Intel,
Microsoft, Texas Instruments, and other
leading industrial companies.
High-Speed Digital Systems Laboratory
Here and now
The HS DSL includes is active in
many areas of interest in electrical
engineering:
• Very fast digital systems (Ghz).
• Integration of hardware and
software.
• Real time data processing
• Computer networks.
• SOPC – System On
Programmable Chip.
• Space applications: satellite
computer on SOPC, fast parallel
data compressor for images,
enhanced reliability techniques.
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all that meets the eye...
Computer graphics and multimedia have
become dominant forces in our lives.
They have opened new ways of displaying
information, seeing virtual worlds, playing,
doing science and art, practicing medicine,
educating and communicating with people
and machines.
Computer graphics is concerned with all
aspects.ovies using a computer. It involves
science, mainly math and physics,
engineering - both hardware and software,
algorithms, and artistic and aesthetic issues.
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Computer Graphics ††††Multimedia Laboratory
Prominent topics of interest addressed in
the lab span computer graphics and its
relation to computer vision and multimedia.
The CG&M Lab offers undergraduate
projects in a wide spectrum of fields including
computer graphics in three and two
dimensions, computer graphics and modern
art, computer vision and imaging and optics.
Some of the projects are integrated in the
lab's research activities, while others address
applications and are done in collaboration
of industries.
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High Performance
Computer,
Communication &
Storage Systems
A system comprises a set of same and/or different
components that must be harnessed to efficiently
perform a common task. A system designer, like
an orchestra conductor, is charged with making
the system components work in harmony.
Areas of Activity
Design of computer, communication and storage (disk based) systems, with
emphasis on co-design of the different subsystems for maximum performance.
“Parallelism” refers to the fact that in many cases the system includes multiple
resources of the same type: several processors, disks, computers, etc. Most
of the activity entails conception of a system architecture and related
algorithms, and the writing of software to control the hardware. Specific
topics include: video servers and other communication-intensive storage
systems; multi-computer systems interconnected via InfiniBand (10-30Gb/sec)
and relevant software infrastructure; power and heat considerations in
processors; dynamic reconfiguration of field-programmable components
(FPGA); embedded systems; operating systems; parallel computing
infrastructure and middleware.
Activity frameworks
The activity in the lab takes place at two main levels: graduate-student thesis
research, and undergraduate student projects. Many of the projects are
related to the research activity and are supervised by the graduate students.
By so doing, the graduate student’s efforts are leveraged; the undergraduate
student works on an interesting topic guided by a capable and motivated
supervisor, is exposed to the research activity, and in some cases even coauthors a paper. The best move on to do graduate work. The lab also offers
guided experiments as part of earlier-stage lab courses in order to acquaint
the students with activity in the area of computer systems.
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Industry relations
The lab has established collaborations with leading companies in
the relevant fields. Collaborations include project topics and cosupervision as well as financial assistance, equipment donations,
and sharing of both knowledge and know-how.
The students
The projects in PSL are suitable for good (or better), highly motivated,
hard-working students who are interested in systems. Good
programming skills are highly desirable.
Relevant courses: Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Logic
Design, Computer Networks, Tools for Analysis of Computer Systems.
Parallel Systems Laboratory
Benefit to the student
In addition to acquiring knowledge and know-how in his/her
specific area of activity, the student learns to identify the correct
performance measures and to design a system based on them. The
student experiences “systems thinking” and the consideration of
alternatives, and comes to understand the influence of various
system components on various facets of its performance. All these
will serve him/her faithfully during a long career, irrespective of the
specific area of activity. Indeed, graduates of the PSL at different
levels have reached leadership positions in leading companies, due
in part to the training they received in the lab.
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Software systems make the world
go around
At the Software Systems Lab, we learn how to build
infrastructure, algorithms, and methodologies for software
systems. Over this infrastructure, we create sophisticated
applications, which achieve good performance. We further
build reliable and secure systems.
Specifically, we deal with the following issues:
• Programming operating system modules
• Software development tools and environments, e.g.,
compilers, editors, and debuggers
• Performance tuning based on cutting-edge hardware
technologies
• Computer network infrastructure (network protocols)
• Network-based Information Security
• Computer Graphics and Multi-Media
• Distributed systems and Internet programming
• Web search technologies
• JAVA and DotNet technologies
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The faculty members lead cutting-edge research groups in the areas of
reliable distributed systems, information security, wireless networks and
mobility, and web search. Many laboratory projects contribute to this
research and build the infrastructure for future research.
Industry Relations
Leading high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Intel take an active
part in the laboratory's projects. They share with us their knowledge and
experience, support the lab's infrastructure, and help supervise projects.
Hundreds of the lab's graduates are employed by high-tech companies
in Israel and worldwide, or at leading academic institutes.
The lab
The lab is located on the 11th floor of the EE Building and occupies several
rooms. The lab hosts a number of central servers and a large network of
workstations running Linux and Windows.
Software Systems Laboratory
Teaching and Research
The essential knowledge base for programming projects is acquired in
our software engineering curriculum, including Introduction to Software
Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, and ObjectOriented Programming.
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Computers and
Computer Vision:
Vision and
Image Sciences Lab's
Recent advances in both mathematical and computational methods in image
processing and analysis, along with the dramatic development of hardware
capabilities, have made it possible to build advanced imaging and photographic
systems that can be applied to tasks, considered imaginary only recently.
Consequently, artificial tools for vision are being developed in a diversity of fields.
Many everyday advanced tools are already equipped with computer vision abilities.
The Vision and Images Sciences Laboratory combines research in human vision
with the development of unique methods for image processing and analysis and
techniques for computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning and more.
As an example, an advanced adaptive gain control (AGC) camera was developed
in the lab that resembles the functioning of the eye and thus gains a wider
dynamic range of sensitivity. Smart cameras that incorporate extensive
computational power, implement real-time vision algorithms.
Fields of interest:
The laboratory deals with a variety of aspects of Vision
Systems, which must cope simultaneously with
capturing, processing and comparing images, and
taking decisions according to the visual information.
Therefore topics for research and development in the
laboratory are:
• Image Enhancement based on understanding the
physical formation process of images, e.g. Imaging
through scattering media, multispectral imaging,
high dynamic range imaging, scene analysis using
polarization cues.
• Development of new methods for pattern
recognition and classification, e.g. learning systems
and new optimization methods.
• Enhancement of methods for medical imaging.
• Methods for blind separation of different types of
tissue by means of tissue "finger-prints".
• Algorithms for stereo vision.
• Real-time processing of image sequences / movies.
• Fusion of information from different imaging sensors.
Examples for projects in the laboratory:
• Smart video camera that mimics the human eye's
ability to compensate for uneven illumination in
high-contrast scenes (increasing dynamic range).
• Underwater photography based on specifically
designed image processing methods.
• Object recognition from satellite images based on
state of the art mathematical methods.
• Recognition of brain activity from medical images,
e.g. MRI.
• An autonomic vehicle that navigates by means of
visual information and avoids obstacles.
• Camera based driver assistance systems for
identifying dangerous situations.
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Research and Teaching:
Pure and applied research in the fields of image
sciences is growing rapidly in the academy in
recent years. Fruits of the research performed
at the Technion have contributed much to the
growth of hi-tech industries. As an outcome,
research and teaching activities in the lab have
doubled in a short period of time.
Vision and Images Sciences Laboratory
• Automatic recognition of "offside" in soccer
game.
• Automatic filtering of advertisements in TV
programs.
• Smart entrance control using face recognition
based on a miniature camera and a PC.
• Vision through clouds: Development of
methods for seeing through scattering media.
• Algorithms for automatic face recognition.
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Computer NetworksLaboratory
Connects you everywhere:
fast, reliable and with great quality
Fast paced developments in technological advancement demands
renewed abilities to face the challenge of communication today.
Technological developments in communications in terms of wireless
equipment and the Internet’s growth places new needs and
engineering challenges for developing and shaping new
communications protocols. The networks lab activity gives a structural
exposure to communication systems and creates tomorrow’s networks.
Research and Education
The computer networks lab is
engaged in reasearch and education
in the areas of communication
networks among computers, hand
held devices and communiction
equipment such as switches, routers
and also wireless devices.
The lab offers undergraduate
projects as well as graduate ones,
and undergraduate experiments in
which the students are exposed to
variety of communications
technologies.
Research activities and projects
includes include a variety of areas:
• Architecture of fast networks
• Architecture of wireless networks
• Quality of Service
• Design and analysis of switches and
routers
• Broadband communication
• Network scheduling and control
algorithms
• Distributed algorithms
• Game theory application to
communication networks
• Ad-hoc networks and mobility
• Network on chip
Academic research
The academic research is done with
The academic members faculty that
are some of the leading members in
the world in the field of communication
networks, and involves the
undergraduates and the graduates
students. The courses which are offered
in the field of networking supply the
theoretic basis for practical work in
projects, advanced research or higher
degree. The lab’s projects win one of
the first three prizes out of the faculty
annual projects contest and some of
them even particpate in an
international conference.
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Computer Networks Laboratory
Relation with Industry
Some of the undergraduate and graduate
projects in the networking lab are
sponsored by the industry. Industrial
sponsors are available to some from both
undergraduate and graduate projects.
This support enables the lab to equip
itself with the latest technologies in the
field and to expose the students to future
research and updated developments.
The lab graduates are fit in the industry
and are recruited to leading hi-tech
companies in the networking area
because of the faculty’s excellence and
the system engineering education which
is acquired in the networks lab.
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VLSI
Shaping the Future
Most of the operations performed by a cellular
telephone, an mp3 player, a personal computer
and all modern electronic systems are carried out
by electronic chips that have become an integral
part of our daily lives. In the VLSI laboratory at
the Technion students learn to design and
implement the chips of the next generation.
VLSI technology has made it possible to integrate over a billion transistors
on advanced chips of sizes no larger than a fingernail on a human
hand. Transistor dimensions are no bigger than a few tenths of a
nanometer. VLSI chips are found in all electronic devices: computers,
cellular telephones, implanted medical devices like heart pacers,
satellites, airplanes, digital cameras, video cameras and all modern
cars. Chips for all these applications are developed by researchers and
students in the VLSI lab.
Faster and Smaller is the Way to Go
VLSI technology has enabled the flawless execution of billions of
operations in less than a second. The ability to perform complex
mathematical computations at high speed allows the implementation
of real time applications like compression and decompression of video
(MPEG2/4) and music (mp3), satellite tracking, intelligent robots and
more.
A Thriving and Expanding Industry
Systems that once occupied entire rooms have now become small
gadgets found in the pockets of many children. Since the late sixties
when a typical chip contained about one thousand transistors, chips
have grown to contain a million times more devices! Capacity is
doubling every eighteen months (as predicated by Moore's Law) and
the VLSI industry in continually expanding. With it intensifies the need
of more and more skilled engineers.
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Thousands of Graduates All Over the World
The VLSI lab was founded in 1984 and was the first
of its kind in Israel. The lab faculty members perform
research in a wide variety of VLSI related fields. Since
its establishment, several thousand students have
graduated through the VLSI lab. Today, many of these
graduates can be found in key positions of the VLSI
industry and academia in Israel and abroad.
What Do We Offer
The wide variety of research and educational activities
in the VLSI lab include designing microprocessors,
chips for processing of physiological signals,
development of technology for space applications,
architectures for System on a Chip in general and
Network on a Chip in particular, intelligent image
acquisition including signal processing on the focal
plane, multimedia processors and more. The regular
curriculum allows for students to design advanced
chips as part of their studies or as part of their
involvement in research projects of the department.
In a VLSI design project a student would typically go
through all the different design phases from the initial
concept to the final layout.
VLSI Laboratory
People, Machines and Software
The VLSI lab comprises a large network of advanced
SUN workstations, a network of PC computers, a
sophisticated IMS tester and additional equipment for
testing chips. The lab students have access to VLSI
CAD tools from the world's leading software vendors
including Cadence and Synopsys. Many experienced
engineers from the VLSI industry support the lab by
supervising student projects. This enables direct contact
between the students and industry, which helps the
students find jobs after graduation. The large VLSI
industry in Israel is consistently in demand for graduates
with experience in the field of VLSI design.
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Computational
ElectroMagnetics
• The work in the CEM Lab focuses on the
development and implementation of new
and efficient computational algorithms and
modeling techniques in electromagnetics.
• The research projects combine deep
understanding of the physics of the problem
and ability to borrow novel mathematical
tools from areas such as signal processing
and approximation theory.
• The research projects involve both
fundamental and applied aspects. The
computational techniques are brought to
bear on practical problems such as wave
propagation and scattering, novel antennas,
microwaves, and optical guiding structures.
• Research Subjects include:
- Low-profile directional antennas for satellite
communications.
- Multiresolution expansions for efficient wave
scattering analysis.
- Hollow-core and solid-core photonic crystal
fibers.
- Optical and millimeter wave near-field
microscopy.
- Analysis of photonic band gap guiding
structures, filters, and couplers.
- Time-domain analysis of transient wave
scattering.
- Design technologies for UWB antennas based
on Genetic Algorithms.
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Computational ElectroMagnetics Laboratory
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Medical Technologies
inspired by
biological principles
Biological systems are capable of performing complex tasks which go far
beyond what is currently achievable by artificial systems. In the Physiological
Signal Processing Laboratory we study some of the principles that allow
biological systems to achieve their impressive performance, and construct
models of such systems which are used for the development of new
technologies. Moreover, new methods and applications for the processing
of biological signals and images from several kinds or medical imaging
sensors are developed. Such research holds great potential to contribute
to future applications in the hi-tech Industry.
Fields of interest:
Processing of physiological signals and medical
images
The analysis of electrical signals arising from the
human body is essential for both medicine and
engineering. New tools are developed for
the processing of medical images and of
physiological signals that are sampled from the
heart, from the brain, from muscles and from
the eyes. Examples for projects in this field are:
Detection of fetal stress situations by analysis of
heart signals from ultra-sound machines, manmachine interface based on brain signals,
recognition of healthy and pathological tissue
by analysis of tissue signatures in Magnetic
Resonance in images.
Physiological Control Systems
The multiplicity of redundant degrees of freedom
in the motor control system is a major problem
faced by the brain in controlling movement.
The brain is required to choose from many
possible control signals the optimal signal in
terms of speed, robustness, precision and energy
cost. This task poses significant mathematical
and engineering problems, ideally posed within
the framework of optimal control. In the laboratory,
models for the control of movement are developed
based on neural network models. Such models
offer the potential to lead to new
solutions for control systems such as intelligent
robot arms or physiological control devices for the
physically handicapped.
Brain Research and Neural Systems
Brain research is an inherently multidisciplinary
research field based on biology, mathematics,
physics, and non-linear systems theory. In the
laboratory models and simulators for neural systems
are developed. Moreover neuro-physiological
phenomena related to learning, adaptation and
memory are investigated and applications in the
field of signal processing are developed motivated
by principles that are learned from brain research.
Examples for projects in this field include: Speech
recognition by adaptive multi processor computer
systems, models for learning and adaptation in
cortical networks of neurons. Cortical-type
architectures are developed and implemented in
large scale analog-digital integrated circuits, tTested
in hardware jointly with the VLSI lab.
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Physiological Signal Processing Laboratory
Research and Teaching
A number of senior researchers and graduate students
are active in the laboratory. Dozens of students perform
projects and lab experiments
every year. The students obtain first-hand knowledge
of latest research in the fields of information systems,
non-linear signals and systems, brain research and
medical imaging systems. The laboratory cooperates
with the faculties of biology and medicine, with the
faculty of biomedical engineering, with medical doctors
and researchers in hospitals, with the hi-tech industry
and with international research centers.
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At SIPL
we "See The Voices"
Fields of interest
The lab is mainly active in multimedia signal processing:
images, video, speech and wideband audio. Processing
includes compression, enhancement, de-noising of
various kinds of noise, analysis, feature extraction,
signal representation, data embedding and more.
Research and projects topics
- Development and implementation of
algorithms for multimedia signal
processing.
- Image and video compression for
communication and storage applications.
- Analysis of satellite and hyperspectral
images.
- Speech and wideband audio signals
compression.
- Enhancement and filtering of speech and
images from noise, interference and
echoes.
- Data embedding in multimedia signals.
- Embedding and detection of digital
watermarks in images, video and audio.
- Error concealment in multimedia signals
transmitted via digital communication
networks.
- Real-time digital signal processing, using
high-speed Digital Signal Processors (DSP).
The rapid technological advances
in the field of high-speed digital
signal processors, numerical
accelerators and displays, and the
need for transmitting speech,
audio, images and data on digital
communication channels have
given a tremendous push to the
activity in the field of signal and
image processing.
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Research and Teaching
The theoretical foundation of the lab's activity is based upon the
fundamental courses in mathematics, and the department courses in
computers and communication. Students who wish to specialize in the
area can choose the signal processing specialization group, which
emphasize digital signal processing, random signals processing, analysis
and processing of images and auditory and visual systems. It is also
possible to continue graduate studies in this field towards the M.Sc.
and Ph.D. degrees.
In addition to the theoretical courses the student gets engineering
training by preparing lab experiments and state of the art projects.
The lab offers a wide range of topics in the field and various tools,
starting with simulations and going all the way to real time
implementation on DSP platforms. About 50 senior-year undergraduate
students perform their project in the lab every semester. The research
and teaching activity in the lab is performed by faculty members, the
lab's technical staff and graduate students.
In terms of infrastructure, the lab is equipped with fast personal
computers, with abundant memory, that are connected to the network
and are equipped with sound cards, image cards and DSP cards by the
leading companies in the world. Development of advanced algorithms
for signal and image processing, which is the main activity of the
graduate students, requires large computation
resources that the lab is maintaining and
upgrading continuously.
Collaboration with Industry
A major part of the lab activity is
carried out for and with the funding
of the high-tech industry in Israel
and the Ministry of Defence. In many
cases, the students, who perform a
project in cooperation with industry,
get a job there after graduating.
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labs in Europe are
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CommLab
Your Connection to the Future
A modern communication system sets a technological challenge that combines
a variety of topics in the following direction of expertise:
• Antennae design – Radiation and electromagnetic waves,
• Transmission and reception at radio frequencies – RF circuit design and
discrete realization on RF boards,
• Signal processing for transmission and reception – modulation methods,
design of signal shapes, information coding and error correction codes.
Realization of information theory rules,
• Advanced digital design and realization of signal processing algorithms,
hardware realization of programmable signal processors.
In the communication laboratory the students are challenged to their highest
level of creativity in their field.
Lboratory studies
Radio and Electromagnetic studies
These topics are carried in the framework of
projects (a, b, special) and laboratory
experiments.
Most of the projects are systematically
categorized: seeking for the right components,
printed circuit board design and measurement
using contemporary sophisticated laboratory
equipment at frequencies up to 40 GHz.
Radiation patterns of antennae projects are
carried out using local near-field antenna range.
Radio communication topics:
Cellular communication, Personal
communication, WiFi, WiMax, RFID and smart
cards, satellite communication including mm
wave spectrum, lap-top short-range
communication (WLAN, UWB).
All levels of achievement are available.
Digital communication studies
Digital communication experiments in the
laboratory are an important pre-requisite to any
student who wishes to further their achievement
in their chosen field. The projects are accompanied
by a deep study and understanding of an
advanced algorithm, software simulation and
hardware realization using either programmable
components or DSP.
The miniaturization challenge – small cellular
phone that has it all
Miniaturization is the most important target in
realizing electrical circuit. Capacitors, resistors
and coils of 0603 dimensions (1.5 by 0.75 mm)
are outdated near the new generations of 0402
or 0201 that can be seen with a microscope. The
effort today is to put everything on a single chip,
which in turn changes the realization technology.
The laboratory is equipped with basic tools to
produce thin-film circuits to transfer radio signals
at frequencies up to 40 GHz.
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The lab has a MIMO communication system infrastructure that enables
practical research with students’ projects. Students can operate a full
communication system using the infrastructure.
Other research projects are in the area of UWB with information rates
of over 200 Mbps, satellite communication in the Ka range with high
power transmitters and low noise receivers that were built by students
in the laboratory. This activity attracts a lot of attention from industries
that expect many communication satellites to be launched. Varieties
of contemporary interesting projects are offered by the lab in this area.
Laboratory Infrastructure
The lab is equipped with a near-field antenna range, Vector network
analyzers up to 40 GHz, simulation tools for electromagnetic design
of 2 and 3-dimensional structures, high frequency circuit simulators
etc.
Communication Laboratory
Research in the laboratory
Future communication systems that combine several antennae in
transmission and reception (MIMO - Multi Input Multi Output) enable
larger information content transfer using smaller bandwidth. Several
research projects in the laboratory accompany the theoretical research
in the Technion.
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