The new strategic research areas of Circuit & Systems Division would focus on three areas:

RF Integrated Circuits and Systems:
This focuses on RF IC design for wireless & mobile communications, RF modeling and characterization for deep sub-micrometer semiconductor devices, on-wafer interconnects and coupling, RFIC testing, ultra high speed clock-data-recovery, RF System-on-Chip, RF System-in-Package, Integrated Circuit Package Antenna, and EMC/EMI in RF integrated circuits and systems. The research covers Ultra Low Power RFIC designs for wireless, mobile and biochips applications.

Analog/Mixed-Signal IC:
Research in these applications covers diverse topics in sensor integrated electronics for biomedical applications, amplifiers for analog/digital class D, instrumentation and micropower design, mixed-signal system building blocks for data converters, PLL, DC-to-DC converters and bandgap references, with a particular emphasis on circuit and system innovations that solve practical problems arising from IC realizations. These research activities are also complemented by low-voltage low-power logic circuit design, with active programs involving the design of high-performance asynchronous digital signal processors and the development of asynchronous logic EDA tools.  

VLSI Design
The research covers a diversity of topics pertaining to the development of novel algorithms, efficient hardware architectures and design methodologies for VLSI and embedded application solutions. Specific interest has been focused on high-speed and low-power computer arithmetic, reconfigurable and evolvable computing, digital signal processing, and IP watermarking techniques for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs


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