Connections 2006

University of Toronto ECE Graduate Symposium www.uoftconnections.org

June 9, 2006

History of the Department The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1909 when the School of Practical Science entered the University of Toronto as the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. In June 2000, Ted Rogers Jr. made a substantial donation in honour of his father, who was a student of the Department from 1919 to 1921. In recognition of this donation, the Department is now known as The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In the early days the department offered a very practical undergraduate curriculum, similar to those of the pre-existing land grant agriculture and mechanical colleges in the United States. The applied science component of the Department’s program began to develop in the early 1920s. The degree of the Master of Applied Science was instituted in 1923, one year after the School of Graduate Studies was established at the University. The first Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering was awarded in 1951. Today’s Department is organized into eight cooperating research groups: biomedical, communications, computer, electrical, electromagnetics, energy systems, photonics, and systems control. Elements of all of these sub-disciplines are reflected in Connections 2006, The University of Toronto ECE Graduate Symposium.

Session 1: FPGA Architectures and their Applications, 10:00 – 11:00. Chaired by Dr. Deshanand P. Singh (Altera Corp. dsingh@altera.com) Room 1200

1.1: Mark Fang, fang@eecg.toronto.edu

Computer Group FPGA Stochastic Modeling of FPGA Routing for Routing Area Minimization

1.2: Peter Jamieson, jamieson@eecg.toronto.edu

Computer Group Shadow Clusters: Making Hard Circuits More Area-Efficient in FPGAs

1.3: Franjo Plavec, plavec@eecg.toronto.edu

Computer Group Exploring SOPC Performance Across FPGA Architectures

1.4: Manuel Saldaña, msaldana@eecg.toronto.edu

Computer Group Multiprocessor Systems Using FPGAs

1.5: Davor Capalija, davor@eecg.toronto.edu

Computer Group FPGA-based Prototyping of the Multi-Level Computing Architecture

Session 2: Advances in Biomedical Applications and Modeling, 10:00 – 11:00. Chaired by Sarah Ali (University of Toronto, sarah@comm.utoronto.ca) Room 1210

2:1: Seema Nagaraj, seema.nagaraj@utoronto.ca Biomedical Group A Genetic Differential Amplifier: Design, Simulation, Construction, and Testing

2.2, Leyla Imanirad, leyla.imanirad@utoronto.ca Biomedical Group Segmentation of Cardiac MRI based on Particle Filters

2.3: Jason Chiang, jjason.chiang@utoronto.ca Biomedical Group FPMOD: A Modeling Tool for Sampling the Conformational Space of Fusion Proteins

2.4: Jeff Kang, jeff.kang@utoronto.ca

Biomedical Group Point-Of-Gaze Estimation: Theory and Applications

2.5: Arun Patel, patela@ecf.utoronto.ca

Computer Group A Scalable FPGA-Based Multiprocessor for Molecular Dynamic Simulation

Session 3: Alternative Energy and Switch Mode Converters, 10:00 – 11:00. Chaired by Professor Reza Iravani (University of Toronto iravani@power.ele.utoronto.ca) Room 1220

3.1: Barry Rawn, barry.rawn@utoronto.ca

Energy Systems Group A Stabilization Role for Wind Energy Conversion Systems

3.2: Edward Chan, chaned@ele.utoronto.ca Energy Systems Group A Hybrid Fuel Cell Battery Power Supply

3.3: Charles Sao, charles.sao@utoronto.ca Energy Systems Group Microgrids: Challenges and Solution

3.4: Ryan Lian, liank@ecf.utoronto.ca Energy Systems Group Admittance Matrix of the VSC

3.5: Zhenyu Zhao, zhenyu@ele.utoronto.ca Energy Systems Group Power Stage Parameter Estimation and Digital Controller Design for SMPS with the Use of Limit Cycle Oscillation

Session 4: IC Design and Methodologies, 11:30 – 12:45. Chaired by Dr. Dionysios P. Kouroussis (ATI Technologies, dkourous@ati.com) Room 1200

4.1: Afshin Haftbaradaran, afshinhf@eecg.toronto.edu Electronics Group Mismatch Compensation Techniques Using Random Data for Time-Interleaved ADCs

4.2: Mohammad Hajirostam, mohammad@eecg.toronto.edu Electronics Group An Analog-Digital Image-Reject Circuit for Quadrature Receivers

4.3: Keith Tang, tangka@eecg.toronto.edu Electronics Group Design and Frequency Scaling of CMOS VCO

4.4: Tod Dickson, tod@eecg.toronto.edu Electronics Group Low-Power Circuits for a 2.5-V, 10.7-to-86-Gb/s Serial Transmitter in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS

4.5: Khaled Heloue, khaled@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Early Analysis of Timing Margins and Yield

4.6: Navid Azizi, nazizi@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Effect of Variability in Very-low Voltage Parallel Systems

8:30 -

9:30 Registration / Breakfast

9:30 -

10:00

Welcome Address Room 1190

10:00 -

11:00

Session 1

Room 1200 FPGA Architectures

and their Applications

Session 2

Room 1210 Advances in Biomedical

Applications and Modeling

Session 3

Room 1220 Alternative Energy and Switch Mode

Converters

11:00 -

11:30

Poster Session 1 Sponsored by The Ontario Centres of Excellence

11:30 -

12:45

Session 4

Room 1200 IC Design and Methodologies

Session 5

Room 1210 Applications for Microwave and

Optical Frequencies

Session 6

Room 1220 Advances in Control

Theory and their Applications

12:45 -

13:45

Lunch Poster Session 2

13:45 -

15:00

Session 7

Room 1200 Advances in

Compiler, Security, and Computing

Techniques

Session 8

Room 1210 Application of

Photonic Devices and Materials

Session 9

Room 1220 Communication

Networks, Theory, and Applications

15:00 -

15:45

Poster Session 3 Sponsored by Altera Toronto Technology Centre

15:45 -

16:00

Zoran Best Talk Award Room 1190

Session 5: Applications for Microwave and Optical Frequencies, 11:30 – 12:45. Chaired by Aaron Zilkie (University of Toronto, aaron.zilkie@utoronto.ca) Room 1210

5.1: Amir Nejadmalayeri, amir.nejadmalayeri@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Toward Highly Integrated Photonic-Electronic Systems: Silicon Guided Wave Optics Formed by Ultrashort Laser Pulses

5.2: Bhavinb Bijlani, b.bijlani@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Temperature Behavior of Broad Area InAs/InAlGaAs Quantum-Dot-in-a-Well Laser Diodes

5.3: Haibin Zhang, haibin.zhang@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Low-loss Type II Waveguide Writing in Fused Silica with Single Picosecond Laser Pulses

5.4: Abbas Alighanbari, abbas@waves.utoronto.ca Electromagnetics Group Fast Wideband Electromagnetic Modeling of Indoor Wireless Channels

5.5: Manuel Romero, manuel@waves.utoronto.ca Electromagnetics Group A Multilayered Broadband Reflect-Array

5.6: Rubaiyat Islam, islamr@waves.utoronto.ca Electromagnetics Group Metamaterial Devices

Session 6: Advances in Control Theory and their Applications, 11:30 – 12:45. Chaired by Shaddy Shokralla (University of Toronto, shaddy@control.utoronto.ca) Room 1220

6.1: Bartek Roszak, bartek@control.utoronto.ca Control Group Closeness of Non-minimum and Minimum Phase Systems

6.2: Cameron Fulford, fulford@control.utoronto.ca Control Group Control of a Contactless Positioning System Using Magnetic Levitation

6.3: Kai Heussen, kai.heussen@utoronto.ca Control Group Control Algorithms for Reconfigurable Optical Networks

6.4: Laura Krick, lkrick@control.utoronto.ca Control Group Formation Control of Robot Networks

6.5: Simon Lam, simon@control.utoronto.ca Control Group The Real Stabilizability Radius of the Multi-Link Inverted Pendulum

6.6: Yan Pan, yanpan@control.utoronto.ca

Control Group A Nash Game Approach for OSNR Optimization with Capacity Constraints in Optical Networks

Session 7: Advances in Security, Compilers, and Computing Techniques, 13:45 – 15:00. Chaired by Peter Beggs (IBM, beggs@ca.ibm.com) Room 1200

7.1: Borys Bradel, bradel@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Automatic Program Parallelization Using Traces

7.2: Chuck Zhao, czhao@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Efficient Backup and Restore Schemes for Speculative Techniques.

7.3: Marek Olszewski, m.olszewski@utoronto.ca Computer Group JIFL: A JIT Instrumentation Framework for Linux

7.4: Jason Zebchuk, zebchuk@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Optimizing L2 Cache Lookups with RegionTracker.

7.5: Martin Labrecque, martin.labrecque@utoronto.ca Computer Group Compiler Techniques for Network Processors

7.6: Fareha Shafique, fareha@eecg.toronto.edu Computer Group Automating Intrusion Recovery via Application-Level Replay

Session 8: Application of Photonic Devices and Materials, 13:45 – 15:00. Chair by Kevin Vora (University of Toronto, kevin.vora@utoronto.ca) Room 1210

8.1: Aaron Zilkie, aaron.zilkie@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Ultrafast Nonlinear Dynamics of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

8.2: Scott Kuntze, scott.kuntze@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Controlling Photonic Integrated Circuits.

8.3: Sean Wagner, sean.wagner@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductor Superlattice for All-Optical Switching

8.4: Brian Fung, b.fung@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Stress Engineering in Impurity-Free Vacancy Disordering for Compound Semiconductors: Theory and Application

8.5: Philip Scrutton, phil.scrutton@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Spatially Resolved Raman and PL of Bandgap Gratings Fabricated in GaAs/AlAs Superlattice Waveguide using Quantum Well Intermixing

8.6: Rajiv Iyer, rajiv.iyer@utoronto.ca Photonics Group Integrated High Order Filters in AlGaAs Waveguides with up to Eight Side-Coupled Racetrack Microresonators

Session 9: Communication Networks, Theory, and Applications, 13:45 – 15:00. Chaired by Azadeh Kushki (University of Toronto, azadeh@dsp.utoronto.ca) Room 1220

9.1: Amir Ali Basri, basri@comm.utoronto.ca Communications Group Performance of Diversity Combining Techniques with Imperfect Channel Estimates and Multiple Interferers in Fading Channels

9.2: Francis Bui, bui@comm.utoronto.ca

Communications Group Efficient Resource Allocation for Delay-Intolerant Communications

9.3: Petar Djukic, djukic@comm.utoronto.ca Communications Group Implementing Software-based Mesh Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

9.4: Hayssam Dahrouj, hayssam@comm.utoronto.ca Communications Group MIMO Multi-Base-Station Beamforming Design in an Interference Channel Model

9.5: Jun Yuan, steveyuan@comm.utoronto.ca Communications Group Cross-layer Design for Wireless Mesh Networks

9.6: Karl Martin, kmartin@dsp.utoronto.ca Communications Group Secure Scalable Multimedia Streaming

Author List Alighanbari, Abbas ………… Electromagnetics Group ………… Session 5 Alizadeh, Hossein ………… Electronics Group ………… Poster Azizi, Navid ………… Computer Group ………… Session 4 Basri, Amir Ali ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Bijlani, Bhavinb ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 5 Bradel, Borys ………… Computer Group ………… Session 7 Bui, Francis ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Capalija, Davor ………… Computer Group ………… Session 1 Chan, Edward ………… Energy Systems Group ………… Session 3 Cheung, Alex ………… Computer Group ………… Poster Chiang, Jason ………… Biomedical Group ………… Session 2 Dahrouj, Hayssam ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Dickson, Tod ………… Electronics Group ………… Session 4 Djukic, Peter ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Fang, Mark ………… Computer Group ………… Session 1 Fullford, Cameron ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Fung, Brian ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8 Haftbaradaran, Afshin ………… Electronics Group ………… Session 4 Hajirostam, Mohammad ………… Electronics Group ………… Session 4 Heloue, Khaled ………… Computer Group ………… Session 4 Heussen, Kai ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Kuntz, Scott ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8 Imanirad, Leyla ………… Biomedical Group ………… Session 2 Islam, Rubaiyat ………… Electromagnetics Group ………… Session 5 Iyer, Rajiv ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8 Krick, Laura ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Jamieson, Peter ………… Computer Group ………… Session 1 Labrecque, Martin ………… Computer Group ………… Session 7 Lam, Simon ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Lian, Ryan ………… Energy Systems Group ………… Session 3 Nagaraj, Seema ………… Biomedical Group ………… Session 2 Nejadmalayeri, Amir ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 5 Martin, Karl ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Pan, Yan ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Parker, Ryan ………… Communications Group ………… Poster Patel, Arun ………… Computer Group ………… Session 2 Plavec, Franjo ………… Computer Group ………… Session 1 Rawn, Barry ………… Energy Systems Group ………… Session 3 Romero, Manuel ………… Electromagnetics Group ………… Session 5 Roszak, Bartek ………… Control Group ………… Session 6 Saldaña, Manuel ………… Computer Group ………… Session 1 Sao, Charles ………… Energy Systems Group ………… Session 3 Scrutton, Philip ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8 Shafique, Fareha ………… Computer Group ………… Session 7 Tang, Keith ………… Electronics Group ………… Session 4 Wagner, Scott ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8 Yuan, Jun ………… Communications Group ………… Session 9 Zebchuk, Jason ………… Computer Group ………… Session 7 Zhang, Haibin ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 5 Zhao, Chuck ………… Computer Group ………… Session 7 Zhao, Zhenyu ………… Energy Systems Group ………… Session 3 Zilkie, Aaron ………… Photonics Group ………… Session 8

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WEBSITE & REGISTRATION

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AUDIO/VISUAL

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kevin Vora

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ADVISORS

Department Chair, Prof. Jonathan Rose Prof. David Lie

SPONSORSHIP

Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Zoran Corporation ATI Technologies

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Altera Toronto Technology Centre

Ontario Centres of Excellence IEEE Toronto Section

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