RAND Lab@ FIU

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

Two Papers at IEEE Radio and Wireless Week 2021

The following two papers have been accepted at IEEE RWW’2021.

Massive-MIMO and Digital mm-Wave Arrays on RF-SoCs using FDM for M-Fold Increase in Antennas per ADC/DAC”, Najath Akram, Satheesh Venkatakrishnan, John Volakis, Dimitra Psychogiou, Tom Marzetta, Ted Rappaport and Arjuna Madanayake.

MMIC GaAs X-band Isolator with Enhanced Power Transmission Response”, Gregor Lasser, Dimitra Psychogiou, Zoya Popovich, and Arjuna Madanayake.

New Paper in IEEE Trans. on CAS-II

The tutorial paper titled “Real-Time Light Field Signal Processing using 4D/5D Digital Filter FPGA Circuits” has been accepted at IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II. The authors are C. Edussooriya, C. Wijenayake, A. Madanayake, N. Liyanage, S. Premaratne, J.T. Vorhies, D.G. Dansereau, P. Agathoklis and L.T. Bruton.

New URSI Paper

The paper co-authored by Khadimul Islam, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, and Arjuna Madanayake, titled “Multimodal Vortex Wave Propagation in Dielectric-Filled Circular Waveguides” has been accepted for presentation at 2021 Virtual URSI National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM), 2021.

New Paper in IET Electronics Letters

The paper “Impact of Bandwidth on Antenna-Array Noise Matching” has been accepted at Electronics Letters. Authors of the article are Roshaan Ali, Geoff Messier, Adrian Sutinjo, Arjuna Madanayake and Leo Belostotski. This work was led by Leo Belostotski at the University of Calgary, Canada.

New Paper in IEEE T-CAS-2

The paper titled “Adaptive Filtering of 4-D Light Field Images for Depth-Based Image Enhancement” is accepted at IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II. The authors are John Vorhies, Alexander Hoover and Arjuna Madanayake.

New Paper at WiNTECH'2020

The paper titled “Experimental Wireless Testbed for Ultra-broadband Terahertz Networks” is accepted as lecture at IEEE WiNTECH’2020 to be held in Buffalo, NY. Authors are Viduneth Ariyarathna, Priyangshu Sen, and Josep Jornet (all at Northeastern) and Arjuna Madanayake (FIU).

Three Papers at IEEE MerCon'2020

Three papers accepted at IEEE Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCON)’2020, Sri Lanka:

Multi Depth-Velocity Filters for Enhancing Multiple Moving Objects in 5-D Light Field Videos, authors are

Namalka Liyanage (UNSW); Sakila Jayaweera (U of Moratuwa); Chamira U. S. Edussooriya (U of Moratuwa); Chamith Wijenayake (University of Queensland); Arjuna Madanayake (FIU); Panajotis Agathoklis (U of Victoria); Leonard T. Bruton (U of Calgary); Eliathamby Ambikairajah (UNSW).

Xilinx RF-SoC-Based Digital Multi-Beam Array Processors for 28 / 60 GHz Wireless Testbeds, authors are

Sravan Pulipati (Florida International University); Viduneth Ariyarathna (Northeastern); Aditya Dhananjay (Pi Radio and NYU); Mohammed E. Eltayeb (California State University Sacremento); Marco Mezzavilla (Pi Radio and NYU); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern); Soumyajit Mandal (University of Florida); Shubhendu Bhardwaj (FIU); Arjuna Madanayake (FIU).

Implementation and Testing of a Switching Circulator for Twin-Pair STAR Radio Architectures, authors are

Udara Silva (FIU); Hasantha Malavipathirana (FIU); Sravan Pulipati (FIU); Shubhendu Bhardwaj(FIU); Soumyajit Mandal (University of Florida); Arjuna Madanayake (FIU).

Paper Accepted at IEEE MWSCAS'2020

The paper titled “A Passive STAR Microwave Circuit for 1-3 GHz Self-Interference Cancellation” is accepted as lecture at MWSCAS. Congratulations to Udara De Silva, Sravan Pulipati, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Satheesh Venkatakrishnan, and Arjuna Madanayake.

New Paper at IEEE ACCESS

The paper “Fast Radix-32 Approximate DFTs for 1024-Beam Digital RF Beamforming” has been accepted at IEEE ACCESS. Congratulations to co-authors Najath Akram, Diego Coelho, Renato Cintra, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Fabio Bayer, Soumyajit Mandal, Vitor Coutinho, and Ted Rappaport.

New Paper Accepted at IEEE RFID 2020

The paper titled “ Physics-Aware Processing of Rotational Micro-Doppler Signatures for DBN-Based UAS Classification Radar“ has been accepted at IEEE RFID 2020. Congratulations to co-authors Jin Wei, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Soumyajit Mandal, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Sravan Pulipati, Xin Wang, and Gihan Mendis.

New Paper in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I

The paper titled “A 1.0-8.3 GHz Cochlea-Based Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer with  Δ-Σ-Modulated Digital Outputs” has been accepted at IEEE Trans. on CAS-I. Congratulations to co-authors Yingying Wang (Case Western Reserve University), Soumyajit Mandal (University of Florida), Jin Wei (Purdue), and Gihan Mendis (Purdue).

John Vorhies Defends MS Thesis

Congratulations to John Vorhies on defending his MS thesis at the University of Akron, titled “Low-Complexity Algorithms for Light-Field Image Processing”. Slides. The committee consisted of Dr. Arjuna Madanayake (FIU, original adviser at University of Akron), Dr. Kye-Shin Lee (Adviser), Dr. Alexander Hoover, and Dr. Nghi Tran.

New Paper in IEEE TAES

The paper titled “A Low-SWaP 16-Beam 2.4 GHz Digital Phased Array Receiver using DFT Approximation” has been accepted at IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES). Authors are Vitor Coutinho, Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Diego Coelho, Fabio Bayer, Vassil Dimitrov, Renato Cintra and Arjuna Madanayake.

Two Papers Accepted at IEEE IMS

The following two papers have been accepted at IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS).

S. Pulipati, V. Ariyarathna, M. Khan, S. Bhardwaj, and A. Madanayake, “Aperture-Array & Lens+FPA Multi-Beam Digital Receivers at 28 GHz on Xilinx ZCU 1275 RF SoC”, IEEE IMS 2020, to appear.

S. Pulipati,  V. Ariyarathna, C. Edussooriya, A. Jayaweera, C. Wijenayake, L. Belostotski, A. Madanayake, “FPGA-Based 2-D FIR Frost Beamformers with Digital Mutual Coupling Compensation”, IEEE IMS 2020, to appear.

Congratulations to all authors.

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[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.

 

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[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.