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NSERC-ULTRA CHAIR |
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| Posters Session |
December 9, 2010 - For a third straight year, as part of the annual Posters session, professionals and students of the Chair stormed the Ultra Electronics TCS cafeteria with their posters. More than 17 participants (professionals, students and post-docs) presented their research projects to the entire Ultra Electronics staff. Once again, exhibitions were part of the whole show this year. Pascal Giard, a research professional and doctorate student, presented what is on the way to becoming the research chair's ultimate development platform, GNU Radio. Another research professional, Christian Talbot, a Master's student, Nouria Belambri, and a post-doc, Thomas Lambard, presented their latest LTCC circuits, which were designed and manufactured in the ÉTS white room. |
Finally, Laurent Mouysset, a research professional, together with Olivier Munger, presented the Chair's vision of tactical radiocommunications of the future. This radiocommunications vision of the future will involve collaboration by several of the Chair's researchers, who will work to make it a success. |
A second Poster session was held last January 26th at Ultra-Telemus' facilities in Ottawa. In addition to the Poster sessions and exhibitions by professionals, students and post-docs, lectures were given by Ultra-Telemus staff on anti-jamming systems and intelligent antennas.
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| Annual Workshop |
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21 & 22 octobre 2010 - All the Chair member were present for an important workshop on the scientific roadmap for the next few years.
For the occasion, the Chair has invited the Professor Gary J. Minden, Kansas University, as a speaker and as an expert in the telecommunication field. For the benefit of all the chair members, Prof. Minden took the second day morning to talk about building Cognitive Radio.
Different objectives were intended to be fulfilled by the end of the workshop. These objectives were:
- Redefine research priorities and directions
- Define research subjects for future Master and Ph.D. students
- Plan platform funding
- Find tasks and wished expertise for the new research professionals and new post-doctoral fellows
- Determine tasks and responsibilities for actual research professionals and post-doctoral fellows.
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After the two days of intense work, the Chair members, under Prof. Minden advices, have achieved all the intended objectives. New Master’s and PhD’s research subject can be found on our website under “Recruitment”.
To conclude, here are some keynotes from Prof. Minden, Ultra’s representative Mr. Iwan Jemczyk and the chair holder, Professor François Gagnon:
- The research chair should take more risk on research and development of new technologies than Ultra Electronics.
- Put programmable radios in the hands of students.
- The chair should go on with 3D packaging on LTCC substrate and focus on LTCC researches.
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OPERA PROJECT - Cultivating talent through partnerships
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Mai 2019 - Identifying and hiring highly-skilled professionals can be difficult. Research partnerships with universities can help by providing a vehicle for training talent that businesses can subsequently hire with a high degree of confidence.
This was in fact the biggest benefit experienced by Octasic Semiconductor of Montreal as a result of a recently completed NSERC Collaborative R&D (CRD) project with the École de Technologie Superieur (ETS).
“Projects like this allow us to improve the quality of our hiring,” explains Doug Morrissey, Octasic’s Chief Technology Officer. “We get employees who have already hit the ground running because they are familiar with our company, the individuals they are working with, and the products they are developing. In the end, it really allows us to ramp up the employee much quicker and realize a faster return on investment.”
During the three-year CRD project, a 22-person talent pool was trained, including three who were hired full-time by Octasic. The research team, led by ETS electrical engineering professor Claude Thibeault, helped the company improve the performance of its new wireless products. Those include programmable microchips and software for voice, video and wireless communications.
The team also began developing a modeling tool that can predict the performance of a given architecture for a given application – a capability which would help reduce the time to market for Octasic’s products. Progress on that front was sufficiently promising that the company and ETS have extended their collaboration through a new research contract.
“There is definitely a need in the market for a tool that could do this kind of performance projection” notes Morrisey. “From that perspective, if this pays off, it will pay off big.”
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TECHNOLOGY - LTCC Circuits & Process |
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LTCC Circuit - LTCC technology developed in ÉTS' white room is being employed in more and more projects in the manufacture of high performance RF (radiofrequency) circuits under the Ultra Electronics Chair. A few examples:
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Production of an LTCC directional coupler. This coupler will be used for low noise balanced amplifier structures.
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Manufacture of a 2:1 RF switch with Dupont corporation's new 9k7 substrate.
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Manufacture of a continuous varicaps diode phase shifter for an electronic scanning antenna. Non-uniform in-line differential phase shifter for high performance broadband Butler matrices.
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LTCC Processes - We have received a new square head perforator, which will allow us to create cavities in LTCC substrates for the implantation of electroni c chips or other discrete components. Furthermore, we are in the process of developing various interconnection methods allowing the use of LTCC devices on standard printed circuits.
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General information: Chantal Cyr, COMunity (info@comunity.ca | 514.396.8851) |
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