Research IT Austria - FFG 7. Rahmenprogramm

Organisation: Vienna University of Technology
Person DI Dr. Kerstin Schneider
Position Univ. Ass.
Department Institute of Electrical Measurements and
Circuit Design
Postcode 1040
City Vienna
Country Austria
Phone +43-1-58801-354 31
Fax +43-1-58801-354 99
e-mail kerstin.schneider@tuwien.ac.at
Web www.emst.tuwien.ac.at
Form of organisation University/higher education
No. of researchers in this working group/unit 14
Description
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The main research areas of the circuit design group at the Institute of Electrical Measurements and Circuit
Design of Vienna University of Technology are design and characterisation of analogue and optoelectronic
integrated circuits (OEICs) in CMOS and BiCMOS technology in cooperation with industry. One focus lies on
OEICs for optical storage systems and optical datacomm receivers with integrated photodiodes for glass and
plastic optical fibres. 180nm and 120nm CMOS burst-mode receivers with external photodiodes were also
designed. New activities are optical sensors e.g. for distance measurement and 3D camera. The main goals of
all optical receivers are high data rate and high sensitivity: -30dBm at 1Gbit/s and -24dBm at 3Gbit/s,
respectively, were obtained. The second focus is development of analogue integrated circuits like operational
amplifiers e.g. with 128dB DC gain and 700MHz transit frequency, low-power comparators, PGAs and linear
analog filters in deep-sub-µm CMOS technology.
RTD Areas
� Electronic circuits, components and equipment / Electronic engineering
� Printed circuits and integrated circuits
� Broadband Technologies
� Special focus: Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
� Deep-sub-µm CMOS Circuits
Cooperations
Experience in following types of cooperative research:
� EU RTD Framework Programme 4
� other international co-operative research
� national co-operative research
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