Premanand V

Education: 1999-2003 University of Delaware Newark, DE

Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering

· Degree conferred in May 2004

· Dissertation topic: “Design of Multi-Gigabit Optical Network Interface Card and Layout Methodology for High-Voltage drivers for Modulators and MEMS devices”

1996-1999 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

· Degree conferred in May 1999

· Thesis topic: “A High-Speed CMOS scanner chip to be flip-chip bonded with MQ Modulators”

1991-1995 Annamalai University Chidambaram, India

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

· Degree conferred in May 1995

Research Experience

Sept 1999 – Present 1997 – 2003 University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of Delaware

Research Assistant for Dr. Fouad Kiamilev

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

· Designed a Xilinx’s XCV1000 VIRTEX FPGA based Optical Network Interface Card with 12-channel gigabit parallel optical link from Honeywell technology center and a 64bit/66MHz PCI computer interface as part of the VIVACE - DARPA VLSI Photonics program

· Designed a Xilinx’s XCV1000 VIRTEX FPGA based Optical Network Interface Card with 12-channel gigabit parallel optical link from Stratos Lightwave Inc., to interface with the OSIRIS board from USC ISI as part of the DARPA PCA (Polymorphous Computing Architectures) program

· Designed and tested a High-voltage CMOS driver IC (up to 50volts) for Avionics Counter measures application (1-D beam steering). The design uses 260K 0.8μm CMOS transistors and drives a 1-D array of up to 256 Spatial Light Modulators. The IC was designed for the DARPA STAB (Steered Agile Beams) program and fabricated in a dedicated wafer run with AMS foundry

· Lead for the UDEL part of DARPA STAB effort with BAE systems. Duties include regular reports, sponsor presentations, project planning and communicating with other team members. Developed a foundry interface to allow for engineering wafer run outside of MOSIS service for the CMOS high-voltage driver Ics

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

· Designed a CMOS IC for 1-D scanning applications (such as Ultra high-speed laser printing). The design uses 400K 0.5μm CMOS transistors and drives up to 768 optical modulators

· Co-designed a CMOS chip for flip-chip integration of 2-D arrays of VCSELs and Photodetectors. The chip was used for FastNet DARPA demonstration of Free Space Optical Interconnection (FSOI)

Work Experience

08/2004 – present Assistant Professor

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

08/2003 – 05/2004 Visiting Assistant Professor

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

· Teaching the following undergraduate courses

1. Computer Utilization in C++

2. Logic System Design-I

3. Logic System Design-II

4. Digital Logic Devices

Industrial experience

05/1997 – 08/1997 Research Consultant

Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

· Performed layout and verification for a CMOS test chip with research circuit designs from Bell laboratories

· Responsible for aggregation and verification of a Multi project CMOS wafer run containing circuit designs from 20 research groups

Design Engineer, Small Business Owner

Digital System Innovations, LLC, Newark DE

· Designed, implemented, and delivered an FPGA-based, 4-channel, 2.5Gbps bit-error rate tester in a single PCI card

· Interfaced with the customer to design the card

Journal Publications

1. Premanand Chandramani, Ping Gui, Jeremy Ekman, Xiaoqing Wang, Fouad Kiamilev, Marc Christensen, Predrag Milojkovic, Mike Haney, Jon Anderson, Kevin Driscoll, Brian Vanvoorst, “Design of a Multi-gigabit Optical Network Interface Card”, IEEE Journal of Sellected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol.9, No.2, March/April 2003

2. F. Muhammad, P. Chandramani, J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, D.Scrymgeour, V.Gopalan, E. Moore, and M. Weiler, “Multi-channel ±1.1kV Arbitrary waveform generator for Ferroelectric Device Arrays,” IEEE Photonics technical Letters. Vol. 14, No.11, Nov 2002, pages 1605-1607.

3. David A. Scrymgeour, Alok Sharan, Venkatraman Gopalan, Kevin T. Gahan, Joanna L. Casson, Robert Sander, Jeanne M. Robinson, Fikri Muhammad, Premanand Chandramani and Fouad Kiamilev, “Cascaded electro-optic scanning of laser light over large angles using domain microengineered ferroelectrics”, Applied physics letters. Vol. 81, No. 17, Oct 2002, pages 3140-3142.

4. Michael W. Haney, Marc P. Christensen, Predrag Milojkovic, Gregg J. Fokken, Mark Vickberg, Barry K. Gilbert, James Rieve, Jeremy Ekman, Premanand Chandramani, Fouad Kiamilev, "Description and Evaluation of the FAS T -Net Smart Pixel-Based Optical Interconnection Prototype", Proceedings of the IEEE vol88, No. 6, June 2000, pages 819-828

5. A.V.Krishnamoorthy, R.G.Rozier, T.K.Woodward, P.Chandramani, K.W.Goossen, B.J.Tseng, J.A.Walker, W.Y.Jan, and J.E.Cunningham, “Triggered receivers for optoelectronic VLSI”, Electronics Letters, Feb 2000. Vol. 36 No.3

6. M.W. Haney, M.P. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, R. Rozier, F. Kiamilev, Y. Liu, M. Hibbs-Brenner, "Multi-chip free-space optical interconnection demonstration based on integrated arrays of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and photodetectors," Applied Optics, Vol. 38, No. 29, pages 6190-6200, October 1999.

7. R.G. Rozier, R. Farbarik, F.E. Kiamilev, J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, A.V. Krishnamoorthy and R. Oettel, Automated IC Design with Area-Distributed I/O Pads, Applied Optics, Vol. 37, No. 26, pages 6140-6150, September 1998.

Conference Presentations

1. F. Muhammad, P. Chandramani, J. T. Ekman, F. E. Kiamilev, V. Gopalan, E. C. Moore, and M. H. Weiler, "Compact Multi-channel 2KV Arbitrary Waveform Generator for Ferroelectric Device Arrays," p. 818-819, IEEE LEOS 2001 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2001).

2. P. Chandramani, F. Muhammad, J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, E. Moore and M. Weiler, "High-Voltage CMOS Arbitrary Waveform Generator for Linear SLM Array," p. 451-452, IEEE LEOS 2001 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2001)

3. P. Gui, P. Chandramani, J. Ekman, X. Wang, F. Kiamilev, K. Driscoll, B. Vanvoorst, Y. Liu, J. Nohava, J. A. Cox, M. Christensen, M. Haney, and P. Milojkovic, p. 863-864, "Gigabit Optical Network Interface Card using Parallel Data Fiber Link for a Free-Space Switched Local Area Network System", IEEE LEOS 2001 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2001)

4. J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, G. Fokken, S. Sommerfeldt, B. Gilbert, M. Vickberg, Y. Liu, A. Cox, P. Gui, P. Chandramani, X. Wang, M. Haney, M. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, K. Driscoll, B. Vanvoorst, "System design and packaging for an optically interconnected MCM switch for parallel computing", The PACIFIC RIM/International, Intersociety, Electronic Packaging Conference July 8-13, 2001, Kauai, Hawaii, USA

5. J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, P. Chandramani, P. Gui, X. Wang, M. Christensen, M. Haney, P. Milojkovic, K. Driscoll, B. Vanvoorst, J. Nohava, and J.A. Cox, "Gigabit Switch using Free-Space and Parallel Optical Data Links for a PCI-Based Workstation Cluster", p. 494-495, LEOS 2000 Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, November 2000

6. F. Kiamilev, P. Chandramani, P. Gui, J. Ekman, B. Vanvoorst, F. Rose, K. Driscoll, J.A. Cox, M. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, M. Haney, "Programmable Network Interface for Parallel Optical Data Links", CLEO/Europe'00 Conference, Nice, France, September 2000

7. P. Chandramani, J. Ekman, P. Gui, X. Wang, F. Kiamilev, K. Driscoll, B. Vanvoorst, F. Rose, J. Nohava, A. Cox, M. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, M. Haney, "High-speed free-space scalable switching network for parallel computing," Proc. SPIE Vol. 4089, p. 578-583, Optics in Computing 2000, Roger A. Lessard; Tigran V. Galstian; Eds. 5/2000

8. F.E. Kiamilev, J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, A.V. Krishnamoorthy, R.G. Rozier, "CMOS DSP and Microprocessor Cores Using Optoelectronic VLSI", 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, Feb 27-29, 2000, San Diego CA. Invited paper

9. P. Chandramani, F. Kiamilev, A. Krishnamoorthy, R. Rozier, J. Ekman, R. Farbarik, "Design of CMOS ICs for flip-chip integration with optoelectronic device arrays," Proc. SPIE Vol. 3631, p. 198-204, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits and Packaging III, Michael R. Feldman; James G. Grote; Mary K. Hibbs-Brenner; Eds. 4/1999

10. P. Chandramani, J. Rieve, J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, M. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, M. Haney, Y. Liu, and G. Fokken "CMOS Test-Chip for flip-chip integration of VCSEL and Photodetector arrays" Optics in Computing, OC-99, Snowmass, Aspen CO, April 1999.

11. J. Ekman, F.E. Kiamilev, P. Chandramani, J. Rieve, R. Rozier, R. Farbarik, CMOS IC Design for Free-Space Optical-Interconnect Packaging, ASME Interpack'99, Maui, HI, June 1999.

12. F. E. Kiamilev, A. V. Krishnamoorthy, R. G. Rozier, J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, J. Rieve, R. Farbarik, Design of CMOS ICs for Flip-Chip Integration with Optoelectronic Device Arrays, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 1999.

13. J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, R. Rozier, F. Kiamilev, J. Rorie, F. Zane, P. Marchand, S. Esener, VLSI Development of Smart-Pixel ICs: A Hybrid DSP Core and a Multi-threaded Programmable DSP, proceedings of IEEE/LEOS Meeting on Smart Pixels, Monterey, CA , March 1998.

14. J. Rorie, P. Marchand, P. Chandramani, J. Ekman, F. Kiamilev, F. Zane, V. Ozguz, S.C. Esener, A System Architecture for use with Free Space Optical Interconnects in a 3D Stacked Processor Environment proceedings of IEEE/LEOS Meeting on Smart Pixels, Monterey, CA, March 1998.

15. Richard Rozier, Ray Farbarik, Fouad Kiamilev, Jeremy Ekman, Premanand Chandramani, Ashok Krishnamoorthy, and Richard Oettel, Automated Design of ICs with Area-Distributed I/O Pads, proceedings of IEEE/LEOS Meeting on Smart Pixels, Monterey, CA, March 1998

16. Fouad E. Kiamilev, A. V. Krishnamoorthy, Richard G. Rozier, Jeremy Ekman, Premanand Chandramani, Ray Farbarik, Richard E. Oettel, Design of CMOS ICs for Flip-Chip Integration with Optoelectronic Device Arrays, Intl. Conference on Telecommunications (ICT98) Porto Carras, Greece, June 1998

17. Haney, Michael W.; Christensen, Marc P.; Milojkovic, P.; Ekman, J.; Chandramani, P.; Rozier, R. G.; Kiamilev, Fouad E.; Liu, Y.; Hibbs-Brenner, Mary K.; Nohava, Jim; Kalweit, Edith; Bounnak, Sommy; Marta, Terry; Walterson, B. FAST-Net optical interconnection prototype demonstration, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3490, p. 568-571, Optics in Computing '98, Pierre H. Chavel; David A. Miller; Hugo Thienpont; Eds. (Publication Date:05/1998)

18. M. W. Haney, M. P. Christensen, P. Milojkovic, J. Ekman, P. Chandramani, R. Rozier, F. Kiamilev, Y. Liu, M. Hibbs-Brenner, J. Nohava, E. Kalweit, S. Bounnak, T. Marta, B. Walterson, FAST-Net optical interconnection prototype demonstration, Intl. Topical Meeting in Optics in Computing (OC'98), Belgium, June 1998

Technical Reports

1. Premanand Chandramani, “High-Voltage CMOS Driver ASIC for Linear SLM arrays”, UDEL technical report, August 2002.