Electronics & Communication

Engineering (ECE) Recruitment Guide

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad DEEMED UNIVERSITY

IIIT-H was set up in 1998 as a research university focused on the core areas of Information Technology, such as Electronics and Communications, Computer Science, and their applications in other domains. The Institute combines pioneering research with top class education and has one of the most rigorous student evaluation systems among premier technology schools in the country. An innovative curriculum allows the student flexibility in selecting courses and projects. Students, even at the undergraduate level, are given the freedom of approaching their coursework in a research-based manner, thus deepening their understanding and widening the exposure, a plan unprecedented in India. The ECE Department is well supported in infrastructure and resources through the Institute as well as through various sponsoring agencies and some industries. The department has expanded steadily over the last few years and is now recognized as one of the leading academic centers in the world. ECE Department of IIIT Hyderabad is graced by the presence of highly qualified and experienced faculties. All the faculties have been qualified from the most esteemed universities of the world and have published a numerous numbers of research publications. Prof. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT-H’s Director, has, in recognition of his contribution to engineering research in India – been named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE). (Oct 2009) For more details, please visit http://iiit.ac.in

Introduction

Curriculum followed at IIIT is in many aspects, one of a kind. The Institute follows a reasonably flexible structure in which a student has the option of custom-tailoring his/her own curriculum as per their own interests by choosing electives from various fields. This promotes specialization of a student in the field of his/her choice and provides them with freedom of arranging the courses as per their own comfort. IIIT believes in equal emphasis on practical work as well as theory. The courses here are specially designed to introduce students to the upcoming technology and make them comfortable at handling a wide range of software and hardware. We have exhaustive workshops running as a part of the mandatory curriculum, i.e. Electronics Workshop I & II, which strongly emphasize on the practical applications of the topics learnt by students so far. Our exclusive lab sessions and project-work provide a student with more hands-on experience with industry standard software and hardware. The institute has numerous industry tie-ups which help our students by introducing them with renowned scholars of various fields through the medium of Talks and various workshops which our hosted in the campus all year round. Our students have also been noted as to be one of the top marked contestants in various competitions at both national and international level.

ECE Curriculum

The selection for the Btech programme in ECE is through the AIEEE examination. The 4-year(8-semester) B.Tech. (ECE) program offers students a comprehensive blend of basic, core, and specialized courses, electives, and projects in order to provide them with a deep and all round exposure to various conceptual and practical aspects of the discipline. Following is a broad overview of all the streams and courses that a student is offered in his/her 4 year curriculum.

Basic Courses

• Digital Logic & Processors • Computer System

Organization • Basic Electronic Circuits • Linear Electronic Circuits • Embedded Hardware Design • Signals & Systems • Probability & Random

Processes • Communication Theory I • Digital Signal Processing • Intro to VLSI • Electronic Workshop I & II • Electromagnetic Theory • Communication Networks • Electrical Science I & II • Mathematics I & II • Computer Programming

(C,C++) • Data Structures

VLSI and Embedded Systems • VLSI Design

• Analog & Mixed Signal IC design

• Microprocessor based system design

• Embedded systems

• Modern computer architecture

• Digital design with HDLs

• Design for Testability

• Multicore architectures and programming

• Parallel programming

• Digital system design

• VLSI Architectures

• CMOS RFIC Design

Robotics • Intro to Robotics

• Mobile Robotics

• Linear Control Systems

• Intro to Robotics Mechanics and Control

Signal Processing, Communications and Networks • Linear algebra

• Analog & digital communications

• Information theory and coding

• Network Security

• Artificial Neural Networks

• Signal detection theory

• Speech systems

• Transmission lines and antennas

• Adaptive Signal Processing

• Digital Image Processing

• Pattern recognition

• Radar Signal Processing

• Speech Signal Processing

• Time frequency analysis

• Wireless communications

Operating Systems LINUX/Unix, Windows

Programming language C, C++, MATLAB

Hardware Description Language Verilog, VHDL, Bluespec

VLSI Design Tools Cadence Tools, Tanner EDA Tools, Modelsim, Multisim, Xilinx-ISE, Spice

Assembly languages & microcontrollers MIPS, NASM, Intel 8085, Intel 8086, AVR Microcontrollers.

Libraries Simulink, OpenGL

Web & scripting language HTML, Bash

Other tools ADAMS multibody dynamics software, OCTAVE

The ECE curriculum enables acquisition of skills as listed below at the end of 3rd Year:

Special Laurels and Achievements

• IIIT-H’s team Mission Gaganyaan was placed Third at the CanSat 2011 World Finals which was held at Abilene, Texas, USA, on June 10-11. IIIT-H team was the only team from India to qualify for the World Finals. CanSat is a NASA sponsored and American Astronautical Society organized annual international competition, which allows student teams, from colleges and Universities around the world to design, fabricate, and launch an aerospace system, as per competition specifications. (May) Team Mission Gaganyaan had also been placed as First at the CanSat 2010 World Finals ahead of MIT, University of Michigan, Virginia Tech, and several other top class US universities.

Check http://www.cansatcompetition.com/2011_Winners.html

• IIIT-H’s poster was presented the Best Poster Award at the National Conference on Sensors and Actuators 2011. The all India conference was jointly organized by the Government of India’s (GoI’s) Department of Science and Technology (DST) and GoI’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), at Kolkata, on March 11-12, 2011. The poster, titled “A Low Cost Portable Temperature-Moisture Sensing Unit With Improved ANN Based Signal Conditioning For Smart Irrigation Applications”, was authored by B Tech (ECE) students. (March, 2011)

• IIIT-H ECE Students Team Finished in the Top 4 at World Embedded Software Contest 2010 (WESC 2010) held at Korea.

• Two teams from IIIT-H are among the top 20 in the TI Analog Design Contest(TIADC) 2011 with one of them eligible to compete for the top 3 spots(ongoing competition)

http://uniti.in/adc/analog-design-contest-2011 • Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Center

for VLSI & Embedded Systems Technologies (C-VEST), was selected as the Fellow of the Society of Applied Biotechnology (FSAB). (Sept 2011)

• The graduating batch of 2013 organized RoboCamp 2011 – a national level robotics workshop at IIIT-H (June 2011), along with guiding and mentoring the participants in designing and building various types of workable robots from scratch.

• NVIDIA awarded Prof. P J Narayanan, IIIT-H’s Dean (R&D) and head of the institute’s Center of Visual Information Technology (CVIT), India’s first CUDA Faculty Fellowship, in recognition of his early and innovative research on massively parallel computing using CUDA technology. (Nov 2008)

• IIIT-H’s Team Kshitij is the only team from India to have qualified for the finals of the RoboCup events, each year, for five years, since the inception of the international contest in 2004.

Course profile for the first two years of BTECH ECE at IIIT-H:

• Basic Electronics: These courses give the students a holistic view into the field of analog electronics and systems. Includes an introduction to basic analog blocks like OpAmps, diodes, BJTs, etc. And the workings of basic systems like DC and AC machines, transducers, etc.

• Basic Electronic Circuits • Linear Electronic Circuits • Electrical Science I &II

• Basic coding and processor architectures: These courses are designed to introduce students to the most sophisticated coding techniques and paradigms. The students are also taught about processor intricacies, architectures and basic workings of the system hardware.

• Digital Logic & Processors • Computer System Organization • C Programming • Data Structures

• Workshops and Labs: We have specially designed workshops for our students where they follow a “learning by doing” approach. Various mini projects along with one final project are developed during the length of the workshops. EW I is undertaken by students during their second semester, while EW II is undertaken during the fourth semester. Embedded Hardware Design course introduces students to Microcontroller, specifically the ATMEGA16/32 series and also to FPGA. Along with this various data communication protocols like SPI, I2S, UART etc. are also dealt with. This mandatory course is offered in third semester to the students.

• Electronics Workshop I & II • Embedded Hardware Design

• Intro to VLSI: An introduction to VLSI which deals with the various transistor based logics of designing a circuit, its power and time analysis etc. This is followed up with lab sessions, where students are to simulate the circuits & verify the results in Cadence Virtuoso Tool.

• Signal Processing: Students are introduced to the concept of signals in real-world and are taught basic manipulation techniques. Ranging from the very basic to advanced level signal processing techniques are touched upon in these courses.

• Digital Signal Processing • Signals and Systems

• Communications: These courses deal with attributes of signals. Students are taught analog modulation techniques, pulse modulation , baseband shaping for data transmission and equalization, detection theory, etc.

• Probability and Random Processes • Communication Theory

In addition to the courses completed at the end of 2nd year, following courses are offered to our students in their 3rd year. These courses focus more on specialization in their respective field.

• Analog & Mixed Signal Designs: This course deals with Analog CMOS design: current biasing, amplifier design, small signal analysis, high frequency analysis, noise characterization; and mixed signal design: switched capacitor circuits.

• Linear Control Systems: An introduction of the students to the foundations of control theory. The course also involves modeling systems through SolidWorks, dynamic simulation of such systems using Adams Multibody Dynamics Tools and control of systems through a Simulink/MATLAB interface to Adams.

• Mobile Robotics: This course deals with the quintessential algorithmic modules required for automating a robot, namely algorithms dealing with localization, mapping, planning, exploration and simultaneous localization and mapping.

• Design for Testability: This course exposes the students to various techniques adopted for testing IC Designs & Manufactured ICs. Testing of electronic gadgets, Faults and Fault Modeling, Design for testability, BIST, Testing of Analog & Mixed Signal ICs.

• VLSI Architecture: The course covers the architectural design of VLSI systems with the notion of optimization for area, speed, power dissipation, cost and reliability. It encompasses within its folds traditional and state of the art analog and digital VLSI architectures optimized for specific purposes.

• Communication Networks: This course gives a rough outline of different connectivity, Networking Issues, Digital Transmission-Multiplexing methodologies , Networking Mechanisms, Modeling and Performance Analysis, Network Architectures and Evolution.

• Computer Vision: The course attempts to give a quick peek into the fast-growing area of Computer Vision. The course will focus on projective geometry, modern visual recognition techniques, modern segmentation techniques and applications in robotics.

• Speech Signal Processing: The focus in this course lies on introducing the fundamentals of speech signal processing and related applications. This course presents the basic principles of speech analysis and speech synthesis and includes emphasis upon the most sophisticated speech algorithms.

• Digital Image Processing: Digital images and their processing is the topic of this course. The course introduces the necessary mathematical tools and techniques and examines different algorithms that have been developed for processing and analysis of digital images.

• Information Theory and Coding: An advanced course in Communication Systems which allows the interested student to pursue any further study in Communications. Focuses on: Communication through Band limited Channels, Advanced Modulation Schemes and their performance, Fundamentals of Information Theory, etc.

• Electromagnetic Theory and Applications: The course gives a detailed look into communication via various types of transmission lines, effect of channel upon data, antenna and their characteristics, etc.

Besides Btech in ECE, IIIT-H also offers a 2 years Mtech programme in VLSI & CE. Students join this programme through the PGEE examination which is conducted by IIIT-H itself.

Courses completed by the end of Mtech 1st year • Advance problem solving

• Direct Maths and algorithms • Operating Systems • Embedded Systems • Introduction to VLSI Design • Architectural Design with ICs

• ELECTIVES:

• Electives in VLSI Stream • Mobile Robotics

• VLSI Algorithm

• CMOS RFIC Design

• Photonics

• Design for Testability

• Analog & Mixed Signal Design

• Biomedical Embedded Systems

• Advanced Analog VLSI Circuits & Systems

• Computer Architecture*

• Electives in Computer Engineering Stream • Compilers

• Parallel Computing

• Concurrent Data Structures

• Advanced Compilers

• Mobile Robotics

• VLSI Algorithm

• Distributed Systems

• Principles of information security

• Computer Architecture*

Labs The institute provides state-of-the-art computer labs to its students which adhere to world-class quality and are up-to-date with the latest cutting edge technologies. The average PC-to-student ratio is 1:2. All computers are part of an intranet (1Gbps Backbone), which connects all buildings, including the hostels; and a high-bandwidth (8 Mbps) internet is available round the clock.

VLSI Laboratory

The department is well equipped with laboratories covering all disciplines of Electronics & Communication Engineering, the main among which are:

• A full-fledged, integrated electronics lab. • Fully equipped Cadence Lab • Altera Lab, well equipped with Altera FPGA boards • VLSI lab set up with part funding from Portal Player

and Mentor Graphics with a wide range of cutting edge software.

• Fully equipped Bluespec workstation with 120 licenses.

• Matlab and Simulink server equipped Communications lab with 20 nodes.

• Embedded Systems Lab equipped with Microcontrollers, latest FPGA boards, DSP processors, Beagle Boards, Synopsys EDA tools, and Tanner EDA tools.

• Robotics lab well equipped with a collection of latest Robots like Amigo-bot, Pioneer P3DX, MAX 5.0 R(all terrain robot), and in-house developed robotics platform like Microbot, SPAWN, Omni-Directional (Robocup) Robots and advanced hardware like Nexys-2 FPGA kits and AVR 8-bit

• Fully equpped Adams Multibody dynamics software with 50 licenses.

• Microcontroller Kits.

• NXP Semiconductor lab

• Signal Processing lab

These are mainly introduced to expose students to practical lab work and analysis of real systems and work with real life problems .

Projects and other Practical Applications

Electronics Workshop • The electronics workshop, which is very

innovative and the first of its kind in the country, is designed to provide the undergraduate student a thorough understanding and practical experience in designing and developing electronics hardware.

• Students are also involved in building Development boards for AVR microcontrollers, USB Programmer, and USB Bootloader Kit, which are currently being used at IIIT-H for conducting lab courses like Embedded Hardware Design, Microprocessors Based System Design, and Embedded Systems.

Internships As an ECE undergraduate it is imperative for the students to know about the technologies and standards being employed at the industrial level. Internships help a student in learning about the work environment of a company and help them in facing real-world situations head-on. Traditionally, 3 months are reserved for internships every year from May to July.

B.Tech. Projects In the sixth semester, students are required to take up a two-semester long project - called BTP (B.Tech. Project) and is supposed to be the culmination of their efforts at understanding of engineering concepts and their application to real-life problems.

Semester/Course Projects On an average, a student does four to five major semester-long projects, besides around 8 short term course projects.

Contacts

Student Coordinators Dhrubajyoti Dutta 9640131029 dhrubajyoti.dutta@students.iiit.ac.in Priyam Parashar 9160384107 priyam.parashar@students.iiit.ac.in Siva Karthik 9032991734 sivakarthik.m@students.iiit.ac.in Harish Reddy 9000256460 harish.m@students.iiit.ac.in Ravi Kumar 7842456082 ravi.kumar@students.iiit.ac.in

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