Gerald E. Sobelman
Professor

  

Area of expertise: Digital VLSI circuits and systems

Education
Ph.D., Physics, 1979, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
M.S., Physics, 1976, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
B.S., Physics, 1974, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Contact information
Office: 4-157 Keller Hall
Telephone: (612) 625-8041
E-mail: sobelman (at) umn.edu
Personal Web Site: http://mountains.ece.umn.edu/~sobelman/

Honors/Awards
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Chair of the Technical Committee on Circuits and Systems for Communications of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Synopsis
My research activities are primarily in the area of digital VLSI design, with applications in communications and signal processing. I am interested in digital baseband architectures and FPGA implementations for a wide range of wireless systems, including OFDM, MIMO, UWB, Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio.  I am also working on design techniques for high-speed and low-power wired communications platforms, including Network-On-Chip architectures and multilevel signaling techniques.

Selected publications
Ebrahim Saberinia, Kai-Chuan Chang, Gerald E. Sobelman and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Implementation of a Multi-band Pulsed-OFDM Transceiver", The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 73-88, April, 2006.

Wen-Chih Kan and Gerald E. Sobelman, "MIMO Transceiver Design Based on a Modified Geometric Mean Decomposition", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 677-680, 2007.

Fakhrul Z. Rokhani, Wen-Chih Kan, John Kieffer and Gerald E. Sobelman, "Optimality of Bus-Invert Coding",  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 55, No. 11, November, 2008.

Daewook Kim, Manho Kim and Gerald E. Sobelman, "CDMA-Based Network-on-Chip Architecture", Proceedings, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 137-140, 2004.