Welcome to Telecommunications Circuits Lab
The Telecommunication Circuits Laboratory (TCL) is part of the Institute of Electrical Engineering at EPFL and concentrates on the development of circuits and systems for digital signal processing with a strong focus on telecommunications. Our work finds application in wireless and wireline communication systems, and in a variety of applications related to telecommunications.
Our research is concerned with:
- the development of low-complexity signal processing algorithms for communication technologies,
- the design of technology demonstrators and prototypes for performance assessment,
- the hardware-efficient, low-power implementation of digital integrated circuits for VLSI signal processing (in communications, but also other applications) and for embedded systems
- the utilization of communication concepts for designing robust/reliable and energy efficient systems (check out the short video on YouTube).
In our work, we focus on a system-level perspective and we try to consider both algorithm and implementation aspects jointly. In particular, we are interested in new, spectrally efficient communication technologies such as multi-antenna wireless communication systems which serve a wide range of applications from cellular systems to local high speed wireless networks. Furthermore, we are interested in wireless and wireline communication links with very high throughput and processing requirements that challenge even the most advanced silicon process technologies. Finally, we are interested in linking concepts from communications (e.g., coding) to future deep submicron integrated circuit technologies which are likely to suffer from reliability issues.
[Sep ’20] Reza Ghanaatian obtained his PhD
We are happy to announce that on September 25th, 2020 Reza Ghanaatian has successfully completed and defended his PhD thesis with the title: “Energy- and Cost-Efficient VLSI DSP Systems Design with Approximate Computing”. We congratulate him for this significant achievement.
[Jun ’20] Orion Afisiadis obtained his PhD
We are happy to announce that on June 18th, 2020 Orion Afisiadis has successfully completed and defended his PhD thesis with the title: “Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers”. We congratulate him for this significant achievement.
[Jan ’19] Andrea Bonetti obtained his PhD
We are happy to announce that on January 25th, 2019 Andrea Bonetti has successfully completed and defended his PhD thesis with the title: “Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure”. We congratulate him for this significant achievement.