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Dr. Maran Ponnambalam

Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr.), Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Chennai

Qualification: BE, M.E, Ph.D
P_maran@ch.amrita.edu

Bio Publications Education Experience Responsibilities Skills Set Tools Thrust Area of Research Teaching Interests Faculty Research Interests Student Guidance
Bio

Dr. Maran Ponnambalam is an Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr.) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai campus.

Dr. Maran completed his BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from St. Peters Engineering College, Chennai, in 2011, and ME in VLSI Design from SSN College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, in 2013. He received his PhD from Anna University, Chennai, in 2018. He has 3 years research experience as Junior Research Fellow in SSN College of Engineering, as part of his full-time PhD and 6 months as Research Assistant in SSN College of Engineering. He worked as an Assistant Professor in RMK College of Engineering for 1 year from 2017 to 2018 and as Assistant Professor (Sr Gr.) in Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore Campus, for 3 years, from 2018 to 2021.

Dr. Maran has 5 international journal publications, 1 national and 6 international conference publications. His research interests include design and analysis of VCO, Harmonic rejection high linear CMOS Mixers, RF micro-strip filters, Design of low NF wideband LNA for 60 GHz applications.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2022

Study and Analysis of the cascoded LNA with and without using inductive degeneration at the common gate for WLAN applications

Cite this Research Publication : K. Shrivastav and P. Maran, "Study and Analysis of the cascoded LNA with and without using inductive degeneration at the common gate for WLAN applications," 2019 3rd International Conference on Electronics, Materials Engineering & Nano-Technology (IEMENTech), Kolkata, India, 2019, pp. 1-6.

Year : 2021

A linear high frequency gm boosting wideband LNA in 130nm SiGe HBT with minimum NF of 4.3 dB for WiGig application

Cite this Research Publication : Pournamy S, Navin Kumar, Maran Ponnambalam, A linear high frequency gm boosting wideband LNA in 130nm SiGe HBT with minimum NF of 4.3 dB for WiGig application International Journal of Electronics and Communication, doi.org/10.1142/S0218126622500013

Publisher : International Journal of Electronics and Communication

Year : 2021

Achieving high linearity and conversion gain in double balanced mixer with cascoded RF and LO stage

Cite this Research Publication : Maran Ponnambalam, Premanand Venkatesh Chandrhigh-frequencyamani. "Achieving high linearity and conversion gain in double balanced mixer with cascoded RF and LO stage". Analog integrated circuits and Signal Processing (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-020-01759-x

Publisher : Analog integrated circuits and Signal Processing

Year : 2018

Wideband inter-digitated hairpin resonating BPF with multiple CSRRs as DGS for harmonic suppression

Cite this Research Publication : Maran Ponnambalam, Premanand Venkatesh Chandramani "Wideband inter-digitated hairpin resonating BPF with multiple CSRRs as DGS for harmonic suppression", Analog integrated circuits and Signal Processing, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-018-1301-7

Publisher : Analog integrated circuits and Signal Processing

Year : 2017

Comparison of tunability and phase noise associated with injection locked three staged single and differential ended VCOs in 90nm CMOS

Year : 2017

Improving HRR and linearity in 3P-8P HRM using mixer with modified transconductance stage

Cite this Research Publication : Maran Ponnambalam, Mythily Kanaga, Premanand V. Chandramani, “Improving HRR and linearity in 3P-8P HRM using mixer with modified transconductance stage” Analog integrated circuits and signal processing. February 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s10470-017-0947-x.

Publisher : Analog integrated circuits and signal processing

Year : 2016

Phase displacement study in MOSFET based ring VCOs due to heavy-ion irradiation using 3D-TCAD and circuit simulation

Cite this Research Publication : P. Maran, N. Vinodhkumar, R. Srinivasan, and Premanand Venkatesh Chandramani, “Phase displacement study in MOSFET based ring VCOs due to heavy-ion irradiation using 3D-TCAD and circuit simulation”, Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 65, pp. 27 - 34, 2016.

Publisher : Microelectronics Reliability

Year : 2012

Design of Control Circuit for Torsion Bar Testing Machine

Cite this Research Publication : P. Maran, Madhankumar, E., and Mathivanan, P., “Design of Control Circuit for Torsion Bar Testing Machine”, in International Conference & Workshop on Recent Trends in Technology, 2012.

Publisher : International Conference Workshop on Recent Trends in Technology

Conference Paper

Year : 2016

Single Event Upset In a 3-Bit SAR ADC

Cite this Research Publication : Ananda Padmanaban M, Maran Ponnambalam and Premanand V. Chandramani, Member, IEEE “Design and Implementation of Two Stage 5-Bit Pipelined SAR ADC” International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, pp.246-250,April 2014.

Publisher : National Conference on Research Challenges in VLSI Design and embedded Systems for Wireless Communication

Year : 2016

SET induced Soft-error study of two stage ADC with VCO based ADC on the second stage

Publisher : National Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering, NCRS 2016.

Year : 2014

Design and implementation of two stage 5-bit pipelined SAR ADC

Cite this Research Publication : A. Padmanaban M., P. Maran, and Premanand Venkatesh Chandramani, “Design and implementation of two stage 5-bit pipelined SAR ADC”, in 2014 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, 2014.

Publisher : 2014 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing

Year : 2014

Spur reduction technique for fractional-N frequency synthesizer with MASH 1-1-1-1 Sigma Delta modulator

Cite this Research Publication : T. V, P. Maran, and Premanand Venkatesh Chandramani, “Spur reduction technique for fractional-N frequency synthesizer with MASH 1-1-1-1 Sigma Delta modulator”, in 2014 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, 2014.

Publisher : 2014 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing

Year : 2013

Injection Locked Differential Ring VCO

Cite this Research Publication : P. Maran and Premanand Venkatesh Chandramani, “Injection locked differential ring VCO”, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Information Communication Technologies, 2013.

Publisher : 2013 IEEE Conference on Information Communication Technologies

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2017

Design and analysis of a narrowband hairpin shaped bandpass filter

Cite this Research Publication : M. Nivethitha, Maran Ponnambalam, Premanand V. Chandramani, “design and analysis of a narrowband hairpin shaped bandpass filter” International Conference on innovations in information embedded and communication systems, ICIIECS- 2017.

Education
  • 2018: Ph. D-Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University
  • 2013: M.E – VLSI Design, SSN College of Engineering, Anna University
  • 2011: B.E- Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Peters Engineering College, Anna University
Experience

July, 2021- Present:                Assistant Professor (Sr.Gr)

School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai

 

June, 2018- June 2021:           Assistant Professor (Sr.Gr)

School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore

 

June, 2017- April, 2018:          Assistant Professor

R.M.K College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai

 

 

July, 2014- December, 2017:  Junior Research Fellow

SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

 

July, 2013- December, 2013:   Research Assistant

SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

Responsibilities
  • Guiding PHD scholar
  • Guide, lead and mentor students in research projects.
  • Planning and preparing Lecture plan, course material and other teaching aids to improve the academic quality.
  • Facilitate student learning, provide effective instruction, and perform evaluations of student learning for continuous quality improvement.
Skills Set
  • Design and simulation of RF receiver circuits like mixers, VCOs, LNA.
  • Design of Micro-strip BPF.
Tools
  • CST
  • ADS
  • AWR
Thrust Area of Research
  • Improving the linearity of LNA, mixers.
  • Design of RF receiver system.
  • Design of RF micro-strip filters and antennas
Teaching Interests
  • VLSI Design
  • Analog IC design
  • Circuit Theory
  • Communication Theory
  • Transmission Lines and Wave guides
Faculty Research Interests

Design of RADAR receiver RF system design for defence and medical images. Design of individual components for RF system and prototype of the same.

Student Guidance

Undergraduate students

Sl. No. Name of the Student(s) Topic Status – Ongoing/Completed Year of Completion
1 T Naveena:BL.EN.U4ECE15173
V Manoj:BL.EN.U4ECE15181
Y Akhil:BL.EN.U4ECE15190		 An efficient VLSI implementation of fixed width Booth multiplier with sign digit based conditional probability estimation Completed 2018 to 2019
2 A Vishnu surya varma:BL.EN.U4ECE16008
Srividya Dechiraju:BL.EN.U4ECE16046
Nune Anjali:BL.EN.U4ECE16334		 Design of Oscillator at 2.45 GHz Completed 2019 to 2020
3 K.S.L.Shanmukhi:BL.EN.U4ECE16087
(Internship Student)		 Functional and User interface automation testing using Selenium Weddriver Completed 2019 to 2020
4 Venkata Bhanusree:BL.EN.U4ECE16191
T.Suhruda:BL.EN.U4ECE16188
S.Lasyapriya : BL.EN.U4ECE16174		 Study of body bias effect on 6T and SRAM and 9T adiabiatic SRAM cells Completed 2019 to 2020
5 AKRITI DIKSHIT:BL.EN.U4ECE17006.
GAYATHRI PRASAD:BL.EN.U4ECE17056		 Design and Analysis of SOBOL Sequence Detector Ongoing 2020 to 2021
6 Mourya.N:BL.EN.U4EIE17034
Musthaffa.P:BL.EN.U4EIE17043		 SET analysis on LNA Ongoing 2020 to 2021

Postgraduate students

Sl. No. Name of the Student(s) Topic Status – Ongoing/Completed Year of Completion
1 Kajal Shrivastav:BL.EN.P2VLD17016 Design of Low Noise Amplifier for WLAN applications using diode connected transistor Completed 2019
2 Boyella Surendrababu:BLENP2VLD17003 A Low power and High gain CMOS LNA for UWB applications in 90nm CMOS process Discontinued 2019
3 K Devendra Sai:BL.EN.P2VLD18009 Study and analysis of DSM for reducing the wandering spurs in fractional n frequency synthesizer, Incomplete 2020

Research scholars

Sl. No. Name of the Student(s) Topic Status – Ongoing/Completed Year of Completion
1 S. Pournamy Ongoing 2019
2 kavya Ongoing 2019
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