Faculty details

Prof.Rahul Bhattacharya

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Electronics Engineering

Email: rahul[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number:

Office Number: +91-326-223-5129

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Research Interest: Modelling Of Analog And Mixed-signal Circuits, Fault Modeling And Testing Of VLSI Circuits, FPGA-based Design

Teaching

Theory Courses

Laboratory Courses

UG:

  • Electronics Engineering,
  • Basics of Electronics Engineering,
  • Power Electronics,
  • Microelectronics and VLSI,
  • Digital System Design,
  • Digital System Design using HDL
  • EDA for VLSI Design

UG:

  • Electronics Engineering Lab, Power Electronics Lab,
  • VLSI Design Lab,
  • Microprocessor & Microcontroller Lab
  • Electronics Devices and Circuit Lab

PG:

  • VLSI Circuits Testing,
  • CAD for VLSI,
  • Test and Verification of VLSI Circuits,
  • Digital VLSI Circuits Design

PG:

  • Microelectronics and VLSI Lab,
  • Physical Design and EDA Lab
  • HDL based System Design Lab
  • VLSI Design and Project Lab

Academics

Position

  • From June 17, 2013 to till date: Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engg., IIT(ISM) Dhanbad.
  • From March, 2012 to May, 2013: Senior Design Engineer in High Speed Link Validation Group of Wireless Division in ST-Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India.
  • From November, 2010 to March, 2012: Senior Design Engineer in High Speed Link Validation Group of Wireless Division in ST-Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd, Greater Noida, India.
  • From August, 2006 to October, 2010: Research Consultant in Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory, IIT Kharagpur.
  • From August, 2005 to August, 2006: Project Engineer in Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics Division in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore.

Awards and Honors

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  • P. Bhattacharya, R. Bhattacharya, and H. Deka, “MATLAB-Open Source Tool Based Framework for Test Generation for Digital Circuits Using Evolutionary Algorithms”. In: Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (Springer Nature), vol. 39, no. 5, 2023, DOI: 10.1007/s10836-023-06088-1.

  • Rahul Bhattacharya, Subindu Kumar and Santosh Biswas “Fault diagnosis in switched-linear systems by emulation of behavioral models on FPGA: A case study of current-mode buck converter”, International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Wiley. vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1-27, 2018.

  • Rahul Bhattacharya, Subindu Kumar and Santosh Biswas “Resource Optimization for Emulation of Behavioral Models of Mixed Signal Circuits on FPGA: A case study of DC-DC buck converter”, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Wiley, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1701-1741, 2017.

  • R. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay “FPGA based chip emulation system for test development of analog and mixed signal circuits: A case study of Buck converter”, Measurement, Elsevier, vol. 45, issue. 8, pp. 1997-2020, 2012.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  • Puja Kumari, Rahul Bhattacharya, MATLAB-Simulink based Framework for Combinational ATPG Applied to Testing of Digital Blocks in Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits”, 28th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT), September 01-03, 2024, Vellore, India. DOI: 10.1109/VDAT63601.2024.10705730

  • Abuzar Shakeel, Arpita Dey, Rahul Bhattacharya, Roy Vincent, Emulation of Nonlinear Dynamics of RF Power Amplifier on FPGA”, 9th IEEE International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), April 05-07, 2024, Page(s): 01-07

  • Priyajit Bhattacharya, Abuzar Shakeel, Rahul Bhattacharya, “Fault Emulation in Digital Circuits using FPGA based Software-Hardware Co-Simulation”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), March 21-22, 2024, Page(s): 355-360.

  • Rahul Bhattacharya, S.H.M Ragamai, Subindu Kumar,SFG Based Fault Simulation of Linear Analog Circuits Using Fault Classification and Sensitivity Analysis”, 21st International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) 2017, CCIS 711, Springer, pp. 179-190, 2017.

  • Anjali Rai, Rahul Bhattacharya,Parametric Fault Detection for Instrumentation Amplifier Circuit”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE-2016), December 23-25, 2016, Jaipur, India.

  • R. Bhattacharya, S. Kumar, A New Approach for Modeling Parametric Faults in Linear Analog VLSI Circuits”, 6th IEEE international conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC), December 16-18, 2015, DOI: 10.1109/CODEC.2015.7893197

  • R. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay FPGA based Chip Emulation System for Test Development of Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits”, 18th annual ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays, 2010, Page: 284.

  • M. Rajneesh, R. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay ''A NEW APPROACH FOR TESTING OF DIGITAL MODULES IN MIXED SIGNAL VLSI CIRCUITS'' IEEE Advanced Computing and Communications, 2007. ADCOM 2007, Page(s): 559-566

  • M. Rajneesh, R. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay ''A NEW APPROACH FOR TESTING OF DIGITAL MODULES IN MIXED SIGNAL VLSI CIRCUITS'', IEEE VLSI Design and Test, 2007, Page(s): 196-204.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Title of the Project

Sponsoring Agency

Duration

Amount         

(in Lakhs)

Role

Bandwidth Adaptive RF Power Amplifier Modeling for Cross Bandwidth Testing (Under ADI Innovation Fellowship Grant)

Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

1 year (from July 2024 to June 2025)

4.047

PI

Emulation Friendly Modeling of RF Power Amplifier for Pre-Silicon Verification (Under ADI Innovation Fellowship Grant)

Analog Devices India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore

1 year (from July 2023 to June 2024)

4.72

PI

Ultra-Low Power Neuromorphic Spiking Architecture for Assistive Smart Glasses

MEITY, Govt. of India

5 years (from 2022 to 2027)

86

Co-PI

Test development of analog and mixed signal circuits by emulation and implementation of their behavioral models on FPGA

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad (under Faculty Research Scheme)

3 years

(from Feb,2015)

7.91

PI

Feasibility study on fault emulation of linear analog circuits on a programmable hardware

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad (under the aegis of TEQIP-II)

6 months (from Nov, 2016)

2.00

PI

Guidance

  • Ph.D students registered and ongoing: 01 
  • M.Tech awarded : 19

Sl. No.

Title of M.Tech Thesis

Name of the Student

Year of Completion

1.

Emulation Friendly Modeling of RF Power Amplifier for Pre-Silicon Verification

Abuzar Shakeel

2024

2.

Evolutionary Algorithms for Test Generation of Digital Circuits

Himasree Deka

2024

3.

Emulation of Nonlinearities in RF Power Amplifiers for Pre-Silicon Verification

Arpita Dey

2023

4.

A Framework for Test Generation using Evolutionary Algorithms and FPGA based Fault Emulation in Digital Circuits

Priyajit Bhattacharya

2023

5.

Fault Detection in Analog Circuits using V-transform

Anshul Mahawar

2023

6.

MATLAB-Simulink based Framework for Test Generation of Analog Driven Digital Blocks

Puja Kumari

2022

7.

BIST for DSP CORE in 7-Series FPGA SoC

Shubham Kumar Dokania

2021

8.

V-Transform Coefficient Based Multi-Point Multi-Tone Testing of Analog Circuit

Sourabh Thapar

2021

9.

BIST-based Test for 7-Series FPGA

Ankit Yadav

2020

10.

System Verilog Based Framework for Testing of 7-Series FPGA

Deepshikha

2020

11.

Emulation and Implementation of Switched Capacitor Filters on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

Rahul Rawat

2020

12.

Emulation and Implementation of Macro-models of Some Analog Circuits on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

Basant Kumar

2019

13.

FPGA based BIST for Digital Circuits

Abhishek Raj

2018

14.

Digital Circuit Design and Implementation using FPGA

Amit Choudhary

2017

15.

Parametric Fault Detection in Linear Analog Circuits

Anjali Rai

2017

16.

Fault Simulation and Fault Diagnosis in Linear and Switched Linear Circuits

S.H.M Ragamai

2017

17.

Fault Modeling of Linear and Non-linear Analog Circuits

Lokesh Gupta

2016

18.

Fault Modeling of Analog VLSI Circuits in a Digital Platform

Nilam Hansda

2016

19.

Fault Modeling and Test Generation of Analog VLSI Circuits

Sandeep Thakur

2015