Arooj Asif

Topic: Emulation of an ASIC Power-Temperature-Aging Monitor System for Fast FPGA Prototyping • Designed a scalable monitoring system for the FPGA prototype of an MPSoC to emulate the data characteristics of the target ASIC for the design phase exploration of the dynamic power management strategies • Tested on Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGA (VC707) board for a Gaisler reference design corresponding to a LEON3 based dual-core SoC

• Emulation of ASIC aging monitor to determine the remaining time slack (reliability degradation diagnosis) for the FPGA prototypes of quadcore MPSoCs • Tested on Xilinx proFPGA board for a LEON3 based Gaisler reference with 4 quad-core tiles • Worked with VHDL (Vivado), C and Tcl in Linux environment

• VHDL programming for CPLDs using Xilinx ISE • Development of an asynchronous CPLD interface for packets transmission from SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) board to Microprocessor and vice versa

• Research Work : - Human-Computer Interaction - Efficiency improvement of EEG classifiers (machine learning algorithms) • Tutoring : - Digital Logic Design Laboratory ( Combinational/Sequential Circuits, Verilog, Xilinx ISE Suite) - Digital Signal Processing Laboratory ( DSP Starter Kit, Code Composer Studio) - Signals and Systems Laboratory ( MATLAB )

• In-door Navigation • Developed back-end algorithms for pedometer and tracking the heading of the user employing IMU sensors • Analyzed and processed Bluetooth beacons’ Received Signal Strength (RSSI) for multi-lateration and fingerprinting

Topic: Wheelchair Control using Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) • The project aimed at designing a wheelchair for a completely paralyzed person. It comprised of two parts: signal processing part and wheelchair control. • Signal processing part consisted of EEG signal acquisition, feature extraction (Autoregressive Models) and classification (Support Vector Machines) in MATLAB. • Wheelchair was controlled based on the classified data using self-designed and implemented H-bridges and Arduino.

• Understanding the ARL Power Generation and Distribution system • Studied single-line diagrams for the 132kV-11kV substation installed at ARL • Process and machines used for solar panels formation were also demonstrated

• Studied machine learning algorithms including Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) • The algorithms were analyzed for the classification of EEG signals

Thesis: Emulation of an ASIC Power-Temperature-Aging Monitor System for Fast FPGA Prototyping Major Courses: • Synthesis of Digital Systems • Advanced Topics in IC Design • Timing of Digital Circuits • Testing Digital Circuits • VLSI Design • SoC Platforms • Chip Multi-core Processors

Thesis: Wheelchair Control using Brain-Computer Interfacing Major Courses: • Digital System Design • Microprocessor Systems • Electronic Circuit Design • Digital Signal Processing • Communication Systems • Data Structures & Algorithms • Probability & Statistics