Tamal Mukherjee
Professor – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 1996 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | 332 Roberts Engineering Hall |
| Telephone | (412)-268-8522 |
| Fax | (412)-268-9687 |
| tamal@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tamal/ |
| Assistant | J. Chraska |
Research Interests
Design Automation for Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS)
MEMS enable the integration of sensors and actuators onto the same chip, processing the information in a digital manner to generate complete systems on a chip. The availability of turnkey fabrication facilities for MEMS has led to a growing MEMS design bottleneck due to the lack of computer-aided design tools. Dr. Mukherjee's research group is developing a complete design methodology for integrated MEMS that includes lumped-parameter reusable models to speed up the design iteration, numerical algorithms for generating MEMS designs from engineering specifications and geometric algorithms for MEMS extraction.
Design Automation for Microfluidics-based BioChips
Dr. Mukherjee's group is also developing a complete design methodology for microchannel-based Lab-on-A-Chip systems.
MEMS-enhanced Reconfigurable RF Circuits
Micromachining in RF foundry processes enhances inductor and capacitor quality factors, increases varactor tuning range and integrates electromechanical mixer filters that downconvert from GHz to MHz with built-in frequency selectivity. Dr. Mukherjee's group is developing an on-chip parallel receiver architecture and circuit blocks incorporating these devices for spectrum sensing and RF communication with ultra low power operation.
In the News
- ECE Students Place Third in IC Design Challenge
- ECE Team Takes Third Place in IC Design Challenge Phase One
- Design tools eye nanoscale realm
- Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking Hosts 3rd Annual Spring Review
- Diana Marculescu and Tamal Mukherjee Invited to Teach at Design Automation Summer School
Research Area
Circuits/CAD/VLSI
Keywords
Analog/RF/MEMS/biofluidic microsystem design
Education
PhD, 1995
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CMU
MS, 1990
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CMU
BS, 1987
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CMU