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Dr. Ingeniero Industrial Antonio Torralba
Project Manager
AICIA-EE
Electronics Engineering
Edif. Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Sevilla
Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n
Sevilla
SPAIN
PostCode : 41092
T.: +34-95-4487363
Fax : +34-95-4487373
http://www.aicia.es
torralba@gte.esi.us.es
AICIA
is a non-profit, public interest, research organization located in Sevilla,
which is the capital of Andalucía, a large region in the South of Spain, which
is a region Objective 1 of the EU. AICIA was founded in 1980 by a team of
professors of the School of Engineering, University of Seville, supported by a
pool of industrial companies. Since 1981, it has an agreement with the
University of Sevilla.
The
main objectives of AICIA are: 1) To carry out projects, studies, and laboratory
tests of interest to industry in general and to its associates in particular. 2)
To establish cooperative relationships with public or private entities or with
individuals to render services and to carry out research projects, and 3) To
teach technical training courses and advanced courses for postgraduates, as well
as conferences and seminars on technological matters.
URL:
http://www.aicia.es
e-mail:
aicia@esi.us.es
AICIA-GTE
is the Electronic division of AICIA with interest in electronic and
microelectronics design, especially in low power analogue and mixed-signal
design for communication and control. AICIA-GTE has participated in many
national and international projects, to be mentioned: FIPSOC (ESPRIT 21625),
POLICOM (ESPRIT 25481) and INSONET (IST-1999-10358).
For
baseband processing, AICIA has a special background in OFDM systems, with
experience in the applications of OFDM systems to wired (power-line) and
wire-less (IEEE 802.11 and DVB) applications. Different integrated modems have
been successfully designed and tested by AICIA, and some of them are being
commercially exploited. For analogue and mixed-signal design, the expertice of
AICIA is in the design of circuits for analogue signal processing, and in the
design of analogue front-ends for communication (wired and wireless systems),
with emphasis in low power applications.
Contribution to CARiMan
AICIA
is interested in the development of hardware for portable and mobile devices for
computer aided risk management.
This
participation will be especially focused on integrating activities jointly
research activities PD (Portable Devices…), TI (Transmission and
Interfaces…), SP (Signal Processing) and SA (System Architecture).
The
combined expertice of AICIA-GTE in analogue and mixed-signal design with
emphasis in low power with application to communication is believed to be of
great interest to CARiMAN NoE in the design of portable and mobile devices for
medical and industrial applications used in Computed Aided Risk Management.
AICIA
is a non-profit, public interest, research organization located in Sevilla,
which is the capital of Andalucía, a large region in the South of Spain, which
is a region Objective 1 of the EU. AICIA was founded in 1980 and maintains a
tight relationship with the School of Engineering, University of Sevilla, most
of its members being part of the staff of this School.
The
main objectives of AICIA are: 1) To carry out projects, studies, and laboratory
tests of interest to industry in general and to its associates in particular. 2)
To establish cooperative relationships with public or private entities or with
individuals to render services and to carry out research projects, and 3) To
teach technical training courses and advanced courses for postgraduates, as well
as conferences and seminars on technological matters.
AICIA-GTE
is the Electronic division of AICIA with interest in electronic and
microelectronics design, especially in low power analogue and mixed-signal
design for communication and control. AICIA-GTE has participated in many
national and international projects, to be mentioned: FIPSOC (ESPRIT 21625),
POLICOM (ESPRIT 25481) and INSONET (IST-1999-10358).
CV of Prof.
Antonio Torralba
Antonio
Torralba has an Ingeniero Industrial degree (1983) and a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering (1985), both from the University of Seville. From 1987 to 1996 he
was Associate Professor at the Electronics Engineering Department, University of
Seville, and, since 1996 he is Full Professor. He is also Project Manager of
AICIA-GTE, where he has participated and, in some cases, led a number of
national and international projects, to mention FIPSOC (ESPRIT 21625), POLICOM
(ESPRIT 25481) and INSONET (IST-1999-10358), funded by the European Union.
Prof.
Torralba has published 30 papers in international journals and transactions and
more than 100 papers in International Symposia and Conferences. He also holds
several patents. Prof. Torralba leads a team of about 15 staff members and 5
collaborators and technicians. His field of interest is analogue and
mixed-signal design for communication, with emphasis on low power, oriented to
portable and mobile devices. These circuits have been integrated with their
corresponding baseband cells to build communication modems for wired
applications (especially power-line modems) and wireless applications (IEEE
802.11, DVB). The background of Prof. Torralba in the design of systems for
communications is believed to be of interest to the development of the joint
research program, especially in activities PD, TI, SP and SA.
Publications
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"A
new method for simultaneous fine time synchronization and frequency
offset estimation in OFDM with simple hardware."
Proc.
Of the Glob 2003. Sigmal Processing for Communication,
(accepted for presentation)
J.
Granado, A. Torralba, V. Baena, and
J. Chávez.
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"Method
for frequency offset estimation in OFDM with application to power line
communication."
IEE
Electronic Letters,
vol..
39, no.5, 6th March 2003, pp. 468-470
J.
Granado, and A. Torralba
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“Implementation
of a fully pipelined ARM compatible microprocessor core”
Proc.
of the XVII
Design on Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference, DCIS'02, pp.
559-563. Santander,
Nov. 2002.
F.
Jurado-Carmona, J. Tombs, M. A. Aguirre and A. Torralba
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“OFDM
Synchronization Scheme for Power Line Telecommunications (PLT)”
Proc.
of the XVI Design on Circuits and
Integrated Systems Conference, DCIS'01, pp.
130-134, Oporto (Portugal), Nov. 2001.
V.
Baena, J. Granado, M. A. Aguirre, A. Torralba and L. G. Franquelo
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