Reconfigurable Low-Power Wideband Receiver for Cosmic Noise Radiation Absorption

The presentation starts with the research innovations achieved and proceeds to the system architecture. The analysis focuses on antenna design, multi-layer high-speed wideband RF receiver architecture, FPGA embedded or external conversion to baseband, DSP, GPS and high-speed communications. The presentation emphasises how event-driven reconfigurable techniques assist the Cosmic Noise radiation absorption calculation and the extracted Space Weather science.

Dr George Dekoulis was born in Athens, in 9/1977. He received a first class BEng (Hons) in Communications Engineering from De Montfort University in Leicester, 2001. He joined the Space Plasma Environment and Radio Science Group at Lancaster University in 2001. He received a PhD on Space Plasma Physics Instruments in 8/2007. The thesis title is “Novel Digital Systems Designs for Space Physics Instrumentation”. In 9/2004 he joined the Computer Science and Engineering Dpt. of Frederick University in Nicosia, Cyprus, as Lecturer. He has worked as Research Associate on ARIES and Technical Support Engineer on IRIS at Lancaster University, R & D Electronic Systems Design Engineer for Electromech Ltd., Leicester, and as Trainee Telecommunications Engineer for OTE, Greece. Research is focused on the design of Space Plasma Physics Instruments, computer architecture and high-speed multi-processors.