Professor Joy Laskar is helping make Georgia Tech a center for the design of integrated circuits — the chips that make computers, cell phones and many other electronic devices possible.
As director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech, Laskar heads 250 faculty and student researchers involved in developing “mixed-signal” circuits, which are designs that combine both analog and digital components to achieve maximum performance. He has been a driving force in GEDC’s emergence as one of Georgia Tech’s largest extramurally funded centers, as well as one of its most productive sources of commercialization, publications and patents.
“The fastest-growing and most profitable segment of the microelectronics industry is the mixed-signal segment, which includes analog, wireless and high-speed signal processing,” Laskar said. “The GEDC team is committed to making Georgia Tech the premier academic center for mixed-signal electronic research and design.”
GEDC’s multi-disciplinary approach supports application development in a range of focus areas, including: