Dr. A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid

Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Tel: 880 2 9665650-80/ Ext. 7537

Email: abmhrashid@eee.buet.ac.bd

                harun148@yahoo.com

Field of Interest

VLSI DESIGN: High frequency analog VLSI circuit design, High Speed and low power circuit design,.

VLSI INTERCONNECT: On-chip wireless interconnect system design, Network On Chip, On-chip wireless channel modeling. 

VLSI Testing: Development of Test algorithm for VLSI circuits, testing of analog VLSI circuits and mixed analog digital VLSI circuits.

MODELING AND CIRCUIT DESIGN WITH NOVEL DEVICES: Device modeling and circuit design with Carbon Nanotube (CNT).

DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN USING FPGA: Efficient Speech enhancement and bio-medical signal processing chip design using FPGA.

ON Going research Project

  ● Very High frequency (25 GHz) Transceiver circuit design for on-chip wireless interconnect using integrated antenna.

  ● Fault detection and localization in Analog  and Mixed-signal integrated circuit

  ● Si on-chip wireless channel modeling

  ● Signal processing chip design using ASIC and FPGA

  ● High Speed and Low power design of Content Addressable Memory

  ● Early detection of Breast cancer using MIST beam forming

  ● Novel circuit design using Carbon Nanotube

Education

Ph.D.  (Electronic Engineering )

the University of Tokyo, Japan

September 1996

Awards: Tokyu Foundation Fellowship 1993-1995

                 Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation Scholarship 1995-1996

M.Sc, (Electronic Engineering)

Oita University, Japan

March 1988

Awards: The Japan Government Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (MONBUSHO) Scholarship: April, 1985-March 1988

B.Sc, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Dhaka ,Bangladesh

September 1984, Class Rank, 5/135

Awards: University Merit Scholarship and Education Board Scholarship.  

Work experience AT Bangladesh

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh

Professor (Feb 06- to date)
        Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

?     Offering post-graduate course on  Advanced VLSI, VLSI Testing etc.

?     Supervision of post-graduate research students and undergraduate projects.

?     UG Course offerings: 'Digital Electronics', 'Analog Integrated Circuits', 'VLSI I', 'VLIS II' etc.

?      Member, post-graduate admission committee.

?      Member secretary, Board of Postgraduate studies (2007-2008).

?      Deputy Director, Department of Student Welfare (2006-2007).

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh

Associate Professor (May 2000- Feb 2006)

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh

Assistant Professor (October 1996- May 2000)

Work experience AT Foreign country

     Texas Instruments Japan Ltd. April 1988- September 1993: Worked as Design Engineer at Texas Instruments Japan Ltd., Tokyo Design Centre from April 1988 to October 1993. Worked in the research and development of Bi-CMOS process for mixed analog digital Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuit design. My primary responsibility included research on process flow and doping profile design, design and layout of Process Control Bar (PCB), process characterization, extraction and fitting of SPICE MOS model parameters. We developed a 1.2 micron double metal Bi-CMOS process which was the leading Bi-CMOS process at Texas Instruments Japan Ltd. at that time. The process had 1.2 micron CMOS with 6.0 GHz vertical NPN transistor, 1.5 GHZ vertical PNP transistor and nitride capacitor. The process was used for the design of many mixed Analog/Digital VLSI chips at Texas Instruments, Japan.

Hiroshima University, Japan. July 2001 – June 2003: Visiting Research fellow, Research Center for Nanodevices and Systems, Hiroshima University, Japan. Worked    on  the development of a novel interconnect technology for intra-chip and inter-chip wireless clock and data transmission using integrated antenna . We have demonstrated for the first time very small size integrated antenna (0.02 mm²) with very high transmission gain (-15 dB at 25 GHz at a distance of 3mm) achieved by proton implantation on a Si substrate. We have also demonstrated, excitation technique which enable integrated antenna on a Si chip to propagate signals without suffering reduction of transmission gain due to the neighboring metal layers in a multi-level metal process.

                Bangladesh university of engineering and technology (BUET) :

            Oct. 1996- may 2000: Assistant Professor

            May 2000- Feb. 2006 : Associate Professor

            Feb. 2006- TO-daTE: Professor

lab development at buet:

i.      Working as an expert member for the up gradation of the existing course curriculum at the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), BUET

ii.    Designed and implemented the Cadence VLSI Design tools at the Robert Nayce Simulation Laboratory at the department of EEE, BUET which is the first its kind in Bangladesh. In a Linux based environment we have introduced full licensed version of cadence digital front end, custom front end and mixed signal tools for education and research purpose.

iii.   Designed the Laboratory course of VLSI II completely based on cadence design tools.

iv.   Jointly Lead the development of the VLSI laboratory in the dept of EEE, BUET which was the first of its kind in Bangladesh in the year 1996 1997. Played role in preparing the specifications, purchasing of the equipments, installed the software and help prepare the laboratory experiments of the course.

Research supervision:

Ph.D. Student  (On going):

• Fault detection and localization in Analog  and Mixed-signal integrated circuit (on going)

M.Sc. Students:

Professional Memberships

•  Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

•  Founding Secretary, IEEE EDS (Electron Devices Society) Bangladesh Chapter

•  Member, IEB (Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh)

• Member, BCS (Bangladesh Computer Society)

Professional Awards/Honours  

·         Received the Best Supervisor award by the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), BUET in the First EEE undergraduate Project Workshop, October 20-23, 2009.

·         Received Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship for conducting joint research with  the Research Center for Nanodevices and Systems, Hiroshima University, Japan for 2 years between 2001-2003.

·         Received Tokyu Foundation Fellowship for the first and second year of the Ph.D. Course (Oct 1993- Sept 1995) at the University of Tokyo.

·         Received Rotary Yoneyama Fellowship for the 3^rd Year of the Ph.D. Course (Oct 1995 – Sept 1996) at the University of Tokyo.

·         Received the Japanese Government Ministry of Science, Education, Culture and Sports (MONBUSHO) Scholarship from April 1986 – March 1988 to complete Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering and from April 1985 – March 1986 to study the Japanese Language Courses.

·            1980-1984:   MERIT Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology    (BUET), Bangladesh.

REVIEWER OF CONFERENCE PAPERS/REFEREE OF JOURNALS

i.      Program Committee member, 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), March 31- April 2, 2009, Los Angeles USA

ii.    Organizer, Special Session on Cross Disciplinary Research in Signal Processing, RF Communication and VLSI Circuit Issues, 12^th International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC 2009), 14-16 December 2009, Singapore.

iii.   Technical Secretary, Third International Conference on     Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2004), December 28-30, 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference is organized bi-annually by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET with the IEEE Bangladesh section as the technical co-sponsor.

iv.  A regular Reviewer of technical papers, Integration, The VLSI Journal ( A VLSI related International Journal published from Belgium).

v.    A Regular reviewer of technical papers IEEE Region-10 Conference (TENCON) held every year.

vi.  A Regular Reviewer of technical papers, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2000, ICECE2002, ICECE 2004, ICECE 2006, ICECE 2008) held in every alternate years in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

vii. Reviewer of technical papers, Journal of Electrical Engineering, the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 1998-date.

Participation in National Commissions, Committees, etc. commissioned by the Government of Bangladesh and Govt. Institution/Organizations : 

·         2007- To-Date: Member of the Technical Committee for the establishment of Clean Room and Semi-conductor integrated circuit fabrication facility at the Atomic Energy Commission, Bangladesh.

·         2000: Member, Selection Committee of Bangladesh Public Service Commission for recruiting B.Sc. Engineer.

·         2003-2008: Member, Technical committee, “Project for the Introduction of digital technology in Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC)”. Actively participated in the specification preparation and tender evaluations for the purchase of Telecine machine, sub-title machine, Film cleaning machine, servers and workstations etc. under the project for the introduction of digital technology in BFDC.

·         2003-2005: Member, Technical Committee, “Project for the Introduction of Modern DVD technology in the Department of Film and Publication (DFP)”, Ministry of Information, Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh.  Actively participated in the specification preparations and tender evaluation of various state of the art film equipments for the establishment of a laboratory with international standard that has facility to transfer film to video, video to film and DVD archiving.

PUBLICATIONS

1.  Upal Mahbub, Tauhidur Rahman and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “FPGA Implementation of Real Time Acoustic Noise Suppression by Spectral Subtraction using Dynamic Moving Average Method” Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Application (ISIEA 2009) October 4-6, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. pp. 365-370

2.   S.M. Shariar Rashid, Sheikh Nizam Ali, Apratim Roy and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “A 36.1 GHz Single stage Low Noise Amplifier Using 0.13 um CMOS Process” Proceedings of 2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering. March 31-April 2, 2009 pp. Volume 3, pp. 480-483

3.   S.M. Shariar Rashid, Sheikh Nizam Ali, Apratim Roy and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “Gain-bandwidth adjusting technique of A 36.1 GHz single stage low noise amplifier using the 0.13 um CMOS Process” Proceedings of 11^th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, 15-18 February 2009, Volume 01, pp. 184-188

4.   Avijit Saha, Fahim Rahman, Rubayet-Al-Maruf, Hamidur Rahman and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “Detection and Localization of Faults in Analog Integrated Circuits by utilizing the combined effect of Output Voltage Gain and Phase Variation with Freqeuncy”, accepted for publication in the proceedings of IEEE Region-10 Conference (TENCON 2009),  November 23-26, 2009, Singapore

5.    Md. Mehedi Hasan, Md. T. Rahman, Md. N. Hasan, A.B.M. H. Rashid and Ataur R. Patwary, “A Novel Match-line Charging Control Scheme with a New Sense Amplifier for High-Speed and Low-power Content-Addressable Memory”, Extended abstracts of the 2008 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, Tsukuba 2008, pp. 488-489

6.   M. Ryadh, K. Zakir, M. Hafiz and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “An Improved method of highly accurate supply detection using bandgap reference circuit and its implementation in a pseudo Bi-CMOS process”, Proceedings of 5^th International conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2008), December 20-22, 2008 pp. 311-314

7.   T. Zubair Islam, A.B.M.  Rashid, “Eight Switch Buck-Boost Regulator Topology for High Frequency in DC Voltage Regulation”, Proceedings of 5^th International conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2008), December 20-22, 2008 pp. 184-188.

8.      Md. Ariful Haque, Mir Saddam Hossain, Shamsuddin Ahmed, A.B.M. H. Rashid “18.2 GHz Differential Low Noise Amplifier for on-chip Ultra Wide Band Transceiver”,  IEEE Region-10 Conference (TENCON 2006),  November 14-17, 2006, Hong Kong, China,  AN-4.3, pp.1-4.

9.      Ashraf Bin Islam, Salwa Mostofa, Wayes Tushar, A.B.M.H. Rashid, “Effect of variation of thickness on integrated Antenna System in Silicion”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Telecommunication Technology,  March 7-9, 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh pp. 163-166.

10.  Nasrin Sultana, A.B.M. H. Rashid and M. Rezwan Khan, “Effect of variation of resistivity and antenna distance on Integrated Antenna System in Silicon”,  Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2006), 19-21 December, 2006 Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 552-555

11.  Mohammad Faisal, Abdul Hasib and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “Fault characterization, testability issue and design for testability of complementary pass transistor logic”, IEE Proceedings Circuits, Devices and Systems, Volume 152, Issue 3, June 2005, pp. 215-222.

12.  A.B.M. H. Rashid, Nasrin Sultana, M. Rezwan Khan and T. Kikkawa, “Efficient Design of Integrated Antenna on Si for On-chip Wireless Interconnect”  Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44 No. 4B, April 2005, pp.2756-2760.

13.  A.B.M. H. Rashid, S. Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, "High Transmission Gain Integrated Antenna  on Extremely High Resistivity Si for ULSI Wireless Interconnect", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 23, No.12, December 2002 pp. 731-733

14.   A.B.M. H. Rashid, Shinji Watanabe and Takamaor Kikkawa, "Characteristics of Si Integrated Antenna for Inter-Chip Wireless Interconnection", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 43, No. 4B, April 27, 2004 pp. 2283-2287.

15.  Shinji Watanabe, A.B.M. H. Rashid and  Takamaro Kikkawa, " Effect of High-Resistivity Si Substrate on Antenna Transmission Gain for On-Chip Wireless Interconnects", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 43, No. 4B, April 27, 2004 pp. 2297-2301.

16.  A.B.M. H. Rashid, S. Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, "Characteristics of Integrated Antenna on Si for On-Chip Wireless Interconnect", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 42, No. 4B, April 30, 2003 pp. 2204-2209.

17.   A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, Gour Das Poddar, Md. Anisur Rahman and Md. Rubaiyat Tanvir Hossain, “Design of a C-Testable and Parameterizable Modified Carry Save Array Multiplier using VHDL”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, The  Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol. EE 29, No. 1,  June 2001, pp.19-22.

18.  8.  S. Watanabe, A.B.M. H. Rashid and T. Kikkawa, “Influence of Si and Low-k on Antenna Transmission Gain for on-Chip Wireless Interconnects”, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Silicon Technology Division No-49, Special Issue on Low Dielectric and Interconnect Materials, December 2002, pp. 29-34. (In Japanese)

19.  A.B.M. H. Rashid, M. Rezwan Khan and T. Kikkawa, “Efficient Design of Integrated antenna on Si for On-chip Wireless Interconnect”, Extended Abstract of the 2004 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 15-17 September 2004, (SSDM 2004), Tokyo, Japan pp. 306-307

20.   A.B.M. H. Rashid, Md.Ariful Hoque, Nayan abdullah, Md. Zahidul Islam, Nasrin Sultana, and M. Rezwan Khan, “Integrated Antenna on Si for On-chip Wireless Interconnect using UWB Transmission”, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2004), 28-30 December, 2004 Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 80-84.

21.  Md. Ariful Hoque and A.B.M. H. Rashid, “A New Ultra-Wideband Transreceiver Architecture for On-chip Wireless Interconnect”, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2004), 28-30 December, 2004 Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 76-80.

22.   Hamidur Rahman, M. Faisal, and A. B. M. H. Rashid, “Fault Characterization and Testability Issues of Low Capacitance Full-swing BiCMOS Circuits”, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2004), 28-30 December, 2004 Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 43-46.

23.   ABM H Rashid, Sarfaraz Newaz, Md. Hasib Noor, Tanvir Ahmed and Nazmus Sadat, “On-chip Wireless Interconnect Using Ultra Wide Bandwidth (UWB) Time Hopping Spread-spectrum Technique”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2004 (ICCIT 2004),  December, 2004, Dhaka Bangladesh, pp.

24.   A.B.M. H. Rashid, S. Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, “Crosstalk Isolation of Monopole Integrated Antenna on Si for ULSI Wireless Interconnect”, Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference, 2-4 June, 2003 (IITC 2003), Sanfrancisco, USA, PP. 156-158

25.  A.B.M. H. Rashid, S.Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, “Inter-chip Wireless Interconnection using Si Integrated Antenna ", Extended Abstract of the 2003 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 16-18 September 2003, (SSDM 2003), Tokyo, Japan pp.394-395.

26.  S.Watanabe, A.B.M. H. Rashid and T. Kikkawa, “Effect of High Resistivity Si   Substrate on Antenna Transmission Gain for on-Chip Wireless Interconnect", Extended Abstract of the 2003 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 16-18 September 2003, (SSDM 2003), Tokyo, Japan pp.668-669.

27.   T. Kikkawa, A.B.M. H. Rashid and S. Watanabe, “Wireless Interconnection on Si LSI using Integrated Antenna”,  Proceeding of Second Hiroshima International Workshop on Nanoelectronics for Tera-Bit Information Processing, January 30, 2004 pp. 32-33.

28.  T. Kikkawa,  A.B.M. H. Rashid and S. Watanabe, “Effect of Si Substrate on transmission Characteristics of Integrated Antenna”, Proceedings of 2003 IEEE Tropical Conference on Wireless Communication Technology (WCT 2003), October 15-17, 2003, Honolulu, Hawai

29.  A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, S. Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, X. Guo and Kenneth K. O. “Interference suppression of Wireless Interconnection in Si Integrated Antenna”, Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference, June 3-5 2002 (IITC 2002), Sanfrancisco, USA. pp. 173-175

30.   A.B.M Harun-ur Rashid, Mohammad Muzahidul Karim and S.M. Aziz, "Testing Complementary Pass-transistor Logic Circuits", Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System (ISCAS 2001), 6-9 May 2001, Sydney, Australia. Vol. IV. pp. 5-8

31.  S.M. Aziz, A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid and Mohammad Muzahidul Karim, "Fault characterization of Complementary Pass-transistor Logic Circuits", Proceedings of 2000 IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics, 13-15 Nov., 2000 (ICSE 2000) Malaysia, pp. 80-84.

32.   A.B.M. H. Rashid, S.Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, "Wireless Interconnection on Si using Integrated Antenna", Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 2002), Nagoya, Japan, September 2002, pp. 648-649.

33.  S. Watanabe, A.B.M. H. Rashid and T. Kikkawa, “Influence of Si Substrate thickness on Antenna Transmission Gain for On-Chip Wireless Interconnect”, Ext. Abstract of Advanced Metallization conference (ADMETA 2002), Tokyo, Japan, October 29-30, 2002. pp. 94-95.

34.  S. Watanabe, A. B. M. H. Rashid and T. Kikkawa, "Influence of Si Substrate Ground on Antenna Transmission Gain for On-Chip Wireless Interconnects," Proceedings of Advanced Metallization conference (ADMETA 2002), Tokyo, Japan, October 2002, pp.543-548.

35.   A.B.M. H. Rashid, S. Watanabe and T. Kikkawa, “A Feasibility Study of Wireless Interconnection on Si using Integrated Antenna”, Second International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2002), 26-28 December 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 356-359.

36.   A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, Mohammad Muzahidul Karim, Syed Mahfuzul Aziz and Pran Kanai Saha, "Testability Analysis of Basic Complementary Pass-transistor Logic (CPL) Circuits", Proceedings of International Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2001),  5-6 January 2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 167-170.

37.  S.M. Aziz, A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid and M. Karim, “Fault characterisation of complementary pass-transistor logic circuits”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics, 13-15 Nov. 2000 (ICSE 2000), pages 80-84.

38.  A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid and Takashi Katoda , “Optical characterization of tin diffusion and defect generation in strained GaAs”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 81, No. 4, 15 February 1997, pp. 1661-1669.

39.  A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, Masato Kishi, and Takashi Katoda, “Raman spectroscopic analysis of stress on GaAs-SiO₂ interface and the effect of stress on tin diffusion in GaAs”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 80, No. 6, 15 September 1996, pp. 3540-3545

40.  11. S.M. Aziz and A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, “Fault masking in low capacitance full-swing BiCMOS logic circuits”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, The  Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.  Vol. EE 25, No I & II,  December 1997, pp. 1-5.

41.  S.M. Aziz and A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, “A parallel test interface for embedded RAMs and FIFIO registers using VHDL”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, The  Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.  Vol. EE 25, No I & II,  December 1997, pp. 49-54.

42.  A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid and S.M. Aziz, “Microcomputer controlled utility interfaced photovoltaic power conditioning system”, Journal of Electrical Engineering, The  Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh, Vol. EE 24, No I & II,  December 1996, pp. 99-105.

43.  S.M. Aziz, J. Kamruzzaman and A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid, “A parallel test interface for embedded RAMs and FIFO registers using VHDL”, Proceeding of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 18-20 December, 1998. Dhaka, Bangladesh.  pp. 58-62.

44.   A.B.M. Harun-ur Rashid,and S.M. Aziz, “Nondestructive evaluation of stress related defect generation in GaAs”, Proceeding of the International Conference on Structure,  Processing and Properties of Materials, 15-16 November, 1997, Dhaka, pp. B21-B26.