Golden Jubilee Celebrations (1956-2006)

Advanced Signal Processing Techniques

Organised by

Department of ECE

Jointly with

Industry Institute Partnership Cell (IIPC) of CIT,

Paradigm Technologies Pvt Ltd,

SANDS Instrumentation Pvt Ltd.

on 23^rd and 24^th February 2006

A two day workshop on 'Advanced Signal Processing Techniques" was organised by the Department of ECE, jointly with Industry Institute Partnership Cell (IIPC) of CIT, Paradigm Technologies Pvt Ltd, and SANDS Instrumentation Pvt Ltd on 23rd and 24th, February, 2006.

The workshop was inaugurated in the presence of Prof. M. Ramachandran, Head of ECE Department, Prof. E. Ramasamy, Administrative Officer and Dr. K. Subramanian, Coordinator, Industry Institute Partnership Cell (IIPC), CIT.

The first session was on "VLSI Image Processing" by Dr. S. Srinivasan, Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering Department of IITM, Chennai. The talk started with a historical note on Electronics and ended with the hottest topic of image processing using VLSI chips. The attractive point was that all the theory was supported by the implementation, comparative study and results of experiments carried out by Dr. S. Srinivasan.

The second session was on "Adaptive Filters" by Dr. Ashok Rao, Head , Networking Project, CEDT, IISc, Bangalore. He discussed on Wiener filter implementation, Correlation Canceller Loop, Gradient Descent algorithm, Widrow-Hoff LMS algorithm and a comparison between the various filters.

The afternoon session was on " Current Trends in DSP and its Applications" by Mr. A. P. Sundar, Head Training, SANDS Instrumentation Pvt Ltd., Chennai. His talk included Embedded Systems, Architecture, advantages and real time applications of special Digital Signal Processors.

The second day of the workshop started with a lecture on " Multi User Detection in Wireless Communication Systems" by Dr. J. Thiruvengadam, Asst. Prof. ECE Department, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. His presentation threw light on source coding, channel coding, and multiple access techniques in CDMA systems.

The following session was on " Audio Signal Processing" by Dr. N. Malmurugan, Consultant, DSP and Simulation Group, Satyam Development Center, Bangalore. He provided information about bandwidth of raw audio data and the ways of transmitting it. MP-3 and MPEG-4 standards were also discussed.

The post-lunch session was on "Multirate Systems and Filter Banks" by Dr. Elizabeth Elias, Professor and Head, Department of Electronics Engineering, NIT, Calicut. The focus was on decimation, interpolation, prevention of aliasing and digital filter banks.

 The Valedictory function was graced by the presence of Dr. R. Prabhakar, Principal, CIT, Prof. M. Ramachandran, Head of ECE Department and Prof. E. Ramasamy, Administrative Officer, CIT. The Chief Guest of the function. Dr. Elizabeth Elias concluded the workshop with a note of appreciation.