Dr. CHANDRA SHEKHAR
Director
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute

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Areas of Research Interest  
Major R&D Achievements
Research Publications
Other Professional Roles
Membership of Professional Societies
Awards


Areas of Research Interest Top
VLSI Design and Design Methodologies.
Analog IC Design and Mixed Signal Design.
Processors and Application Specific Processors (Architecture and Design).
CAD for VLSI.
Physics and Modeling of MOS Devices.
VLSI System Applications.


Major R&D Achievements Top

Designed the country's first dedicated full-custom LSI processor chip - 16-bit processor for pulse-width modulation (PWM) control of variable frequency AC drives.

Designed a serial data communication controller VLSI semi-custom chip and used in CDOT's RAX and MAXtelephone switches.

Designed the nation's first general-purpose microprocessor chip -microprocessor, the Motorola 68010.

Pioneered the spreading of the new high-productivity state-of-the-art hardware description language (VHDL) based VLSI.

Currently working on the design of two application specific VLSI processors and an embedded system based on these processors (to be realized as FPGAs) to convert Hindi text into speech.



Research Publications Top
41 research papers (contributed and invited) in various reputed international/national journals and conferences.


Other Professional Roles Top

Member of National Microelectronics Council's (NMC) Working Group on Computer Aids for VLSI Design from 1987 -- 1995.

Member of the respective coordination committees for the MoUs of CEERI with BITS-Pilani, IIT-Delhi and VRCE-Nagpur.

Member of the Working Group on Microelectronics of the task force on Electronics set-up by the Planning Commission for the preparation of the Electronics part of the IX Plan, 1996 -- 1997.

PRSG member for various DoE/DIT sponsored projects : 1987 -- Continuing.

PRSG member for various DSIR sponsored projects : 1994 -- Continuing.

Reviewer for BRNS sponsored projects : 1998 -- Continuing.
Member of CSIR Scientific Delegation to TUBITAK, Turkey in June, 1994.
Member of the MIT's Working Group on Microelectronics and Photonics :1999 -- Continuing.
Member of the MIT's Coordination Committee on Microelectronics and Photonics : 1999 -- Continuing.
Delivered inivited lectures on various aspects of Microelectronics /VLSI Design at different IITs, IISc, SCL, BARC, CSIO, etc.
Served as a member of the committee of MIT for Operationalisation of the Semiconductor IC Layout Design bill.
Serving as a member of the high powered committee on IT set up by the Government of Rajasthan.

Advised Government of Rajasthan on the setting up of an Institute of IT at Jaipur as a public-private partnership project.




Membership of Professional Societies Top
Fellow of IETE.
Life Member of Indian Physics Association.
Life Member of Semiconductor Society of India.
Life Member of Indo-French Technical Association.


Awards Top

UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award in 1986 for contributions in the area of Informatics and Applications of Computers in Scientific Research.

1988 CEERI Foundation Day Merit Award as a Project Leader of the UNDP Project - ``Design of ASICs''.

   
 
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