I am  a third  year EECS  graduate student  at UC Berkeley.   I graduated from BITS, Pilani, India with B.E. (Hons.) Electrical and a dual M.Sc.(Hons.) Math.  I worked at Texas Instruments(India),  Bangalore, for a year before joining graduate school at Berkeley. 
 

Research  

My research advisor is  Prof . Jan Rabaey. We have just completed the Pleiades project where I was involved with the architecture & IC design of the voice coder chip Maia, the first to use the Pleiades architecture. My ERL summary gives an overview of my work on Maia. The effort has lead to the following publications:

1. Hui Zhang, Vandana Prabhu, Varghese George, Marlene Wan, Martin Benes, Arthur Abnous, Jan Rabaey, "An 1 V Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Processor IC for Baseband Wireless Applications", ISSCC, 2000

2. Marlene Wan, Hui Zhang, Varghese George, Martin Benes, Arthur Abnous, Vandana Prabhu, Jan Rabaey, "Design Methodology of a Low-Energy Reconfigurable Single-Chip DSP System", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 2000   [PDF]

I am now involved with the new Two Chip Intercom   and the PicoRadio research projects at the recently inaugrated Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Recent Presentations

1. Final DARPA presentation for Pleiades(09/15/99) [PPT]
2. BWRC Summer '99 Retreat (06/16/99) [PDF]
3. ILP '99 Poster (2/18/99) [PDF]

 

Office

BWRC (in downtown Berkeley)

voice: (510) 666 3157

fax: (510) 883 0270

Mailing Address

Berkeley Wireless Research Center
2108 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704.

vanp@eecs.berkeley.edu