ECE: Open Positions - Advanced Reconfigurable Miniaturized Power I/Os (ARMPIO)

Open Positions : Advanced Reconfigurable Miniaturized Power I / Os Last updated : April 25, , 2 : 56 p.m. DescriptionOur industrial partner designs avionic equipment for a variety of aircraft.

These safety critical systems, currently implemented using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, interface to flight surfaces, landing gears, cockpit controls, etc.

generating and reading analog and digital signals. Future aviation markets require flight control computers with dramatically reduced space, weight and power (SWAP).

Although a custom integrated circuit (IC) drastically improves SWAP, no single transistor technology is optimal for the range of components, which includes power transistors, high-speed digital, as well as analog circuits.

Using an advanced system-in-package (SiP) technology we will integrate enhanced flight control computer functionality into a significantly reduced volume.

This four-year project brings together five faculty members from École de technologie supérieure, Concordia and McGill, along with a team of two post-docs, six PhD students, five MASc students and a research professional.

Prospective students will join a team with expertise in packaging, MEMS and analog and digital integrated circuit design.

Through close collaboration with the team and industry partner, researchers will deliver several prototypes, consisting of MEMS for switches and isolators, custom ICs for various signal processing applications, actuating MEMS switches, driving MEMS isolators, as well as demonstrations of enhanced system-level approaches of reliability and fault detection.

ProfessorsGlenn Cowan, Concordia University Principal Investigator Yves Blaquière, École de technologie supérieure Nicolas Constantin, École de technologie supérieure Frédéric Nabki, École de technologie supérieure Boris Vaisband, McGill University Government partnersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and MitacsOpen PositionsWe are looking for candidates with one or several of the following competencies : Integrated circuit design (positions at all graduate levels) Analog integrated circuit design in CMOS technology : amplifiers, limiters, isolators, protection circuits, voltage / current / temperature sensors, switched capacitorsPhysical design of high voltage CMOS integrated circuits (layout, place-and-route, simulation, verification)Design of power electronic circuits (