RAND Lab@ FIU

RF, Analog, and Digital Laboratory for Advanced Signal Processing Circuits at Florida International University

Cadence University Program Member

Florida International University is a member of the Cadence University Program.

The Cadence® toolset is a complete Integrated Circuit (IC) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system used to develop commercial analog, digital, mixed-signal and RF ICs and circuit boards. This toolset is used in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for research projects and the various courses.

Students in the following courses currently use or will use the Custom IC, Digital IC, Verification, and SPB software tools from Cadence Design Systems.

Courses employing Cadence®* Tools

EEE 4314 Integrated Circuits and Systems

EEL 4746 Microcomputers I

EEL 4747L Microcomputers II (RISC)

EEL 4920 Senior Design I

EEL 4921C Senior Design II

EEL 5426 RF Circuit Design

EEL 5741 Adv Microproc Sys

EEL 6167 VLSI Design

EEL 6726 Advanced VLSI Design

EEL 6758 Engineering Design of Microprocessor Based Operating System

EEL 6825 Pattern Recognition

Research at RF, ANALOG, AND DIGITAL LABORATORY (RAND Lab)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Arjuna Madanayake

RF, analog and digital (RAND) laboratory under Dr. Arjuna Madanayake is focused on developing advanced signal processing circuits for RF and analog computing and wireless communications applications. Cadence products are used to develop custom ICs for solving partial differential equations, 5G/6G communication system components, data converters and amplifier topologies, array processing circuits, digital algorithms and linear algebra systems, and accelerating machine learning operations.

Contact Information:

Dr. Arjuna Madanayake

Email: amadanay@fiu.edu

Phone: (305) 348-8704
FIU Engineering Center
10555 West Flagler Street

Miami, Florida 33174

(Room EC 3983)

Research labs employing Cadence® Tools

Advanced Real-Time and Computing Systems Lab (ARCS LAB)

RF Communications, Millimeter-Waves, and Terahertz Lab

Bio-MEMS and Microsystems Lab

Human Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Integrated Nanosystems Research Lab

Site is last updated on 12/11/2019

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This research is sponsored by Ocius Technologies via an STTR Phase-2 award from DARPA Defense Science Office (DSO).


[ 1] N. Udayanga, A. Madanayake, S. I. Hariharan, J. Liang, S. Mandal, L. Belostotski, and L. T. Bruton, “A Radio Frequency Analog Computer for Computational Electromagnetics,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), pp. 1–1, 2020.

 

[2] N. Udayanga, S. I. Hariharan, S. Mandal, L. Belostotski, L. T. Bruton, and A. Madanayake, “Continuous-Time Algorithms for Solving Maxwell’s Equations Using Analog Circuits,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, Reg. Papers, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 3941–3954, Oct. 2019.

 

[3] N. Udayanga, A. Madanayake, S. I. Hariharan, and N. Hawk, “Continuous-Time Analog Computing Circuits for Solving the Electromagnetic Wave Equation,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst. (ISCAS), May 2018, pp. 1–5.

 

[4] N. Udayanga, A. Madanayake, and S. I. Hariharan, “Continuous-Time Algorithms for Solving the Electromagnetic Wave Equation in Analog ICs,” in Proc. IEEE 60th Int. Midwest Symp. Circuits Syst. (MWSCAS), Aug. 2017, pp. 29–32.