Rajeevan Amirtharajah

[R. Amirtharajah]
Assistant Professor
Micropower Circuits and Systems Group
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis

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Office
3173 Kemper Hall (Engineering II)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, California   95616-5294
USA

Phone
530-754-6562
530-752-8428 (fax)

Email
amirtharajah@ece.ucdavis.edu
Teaching
Fall 2003: EEC 290 Seminar, Sept. 26, 2003:
"Power and Performance in Digital VLSI Design"
Winter 2004: EEC 289O: Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Spring 2004: ENG 100: Electronic Circuits and Systems
Fall 2004: EEC 180A: Digital Systems I
Winter 2005: EEC 289O: Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Spring 2005: EEC 118: Digital Integrated Circuits
Fall 2005: EEC 210: Analog Integrated Circuits
Winter 2006: EEC 216: Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Spring 2006: EEC 118: Digital Integrated Circuits (web page)

Office Hours
Spring 2006: Thu 1-3 or by appointment (email is best).

Biographical Sketch

Rajeevan Amirtharajah received the S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in 1999, all in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. From 1999 to 2002, he was a senior member of the technical staff at High Speed Solutions Corp., an Intel Company, Hudson, MA, now known as Intel Platform Technologies. He worked as an ASIC and mixed-signal circuit design consultant at SMaL Camera Technologies, Cambridge, MA, in 2003. In July 2003, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of California, Davis, where he is currently an assistant professor. He is an inventor on ten United States patents. He is a member of IEEE, AAAS, and Sigma Xi.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Students

I am currently recruiting students for several projects in low power digital circuit design, VLSI, sensor signal processing systems, and high performance i/o circuits and interconnect. If you are a current UC Davis admit, graduate student, or undergraduate with an interest in these areas and/or an outstanding academic or research record, feel free to contact me to discuss getting involved. If you are a prospective Davis student or postdoctoral researcher, please read this before contacting me.

Research

Most broadly, my interests are in the area of physical implementation of computing and signal processing systems, which spans everything from digital circuit and VLSI design to power electronics to computer architecture and software. My research projects are currently focused in three main areas: (1) ultra low power CMOS design for sensor signal processing applications, (2) energy scavenging, and (3) high performance chip i/o circuits and interconnect. In the future, I expect the implementation of low power sensor signal processors will move to non-CMOS fabrication technologies (such as organic semiconductors) to take advantage of low cost fabrication and low leakage power at the expense of performance.

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Last update: March 5, 2007
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