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» Graduate Students

  • Student:    Pedro Escalona
    Project:    
    “Automated  Characterization of TransientParameters in HV-Power MOSFETS”
    Level:       Active - MSEE
  • Student:    Felipe Minotta
    Project:    
    “Scalable Address Generation Methods for Efficient FFT Core Synthesis”
    Level:       Active - MSEE
  • Student:    Arnaldo Cruz
    Project:    
    “Low-power Compilation Techniques for Embedded Processors”
    Level:       Active - MSCE
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» Supervised Theses

  • Student:    Agenor Polo Zabaleta
    Project:    “Design Methodology for Resource Efficient Implementation of Fast Fourier Transform Cores on Field Programmable Gate Arrays”
    Level:       MSEE (Graduated Fall 2012 - Currently at Universidad del Norte in Colombia)
  • Title:        “Techniques for Spectral Discrimination of Noise Sources in Integrated MOSFETs”
    Student:   Luis Francisco Fernandez
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Fall 2012 – Currently a faculty member at PUCMM)

  • Title:        “Characterization of Reverse Recovery Time in LDMOS”
    Student:   Jose A. Rodriguez
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Fall 2011 – Currently FTE at TI Dallas)

  • Title:        “Study of Correlations among Noise Sources in Sigma-Delta Modulators”
    Student:   Carlos Bula Racines
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Spring 2011- Currently TBD)

  • Title:         “Methods for Evaluating Parasitic LC in PCB Layouts For Power Electronics Circuits”
    Student:   Angel Rivera Ramos
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Spring 2010 – Currently FTE at Honeywell Puerto Rico)

  • Title:        “Scalable FP-FFT Core for Xilinx FPGAs”
    Student:   Victor Montaño
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Spring 2009 – Currently FTE at TI Dallas, TX)

  • Title:        “High-Level Partitioning of Discrete Signal Transforms on Distributed Hardware Architectures”
    Student:   Rafael Arce Nazario
    Level:      Ph.D.  (Graduated Spring 2007 – Currently a faculty member at UPRM-RP)

  • Title:        “High Frequency Behavioral Modeling of Second Order Sigma-delta Modulators”
    Student:   George Suárez Martínez
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Spring 2006 – Currently FTE at NASA AMES Center, MD)

  • Title:        “Power and Energy Estimation in Microprocessors Through Static Code Analysis”
    Student:   Oscar Acevedo Patiño
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Fall 2005 – Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Univ. of Illinois)

  • Title:        “Development of Floating-point Arithmetic Cores for FPGA Synthesis”
    Student:   Irvin Ortíz Flores
    Level:      MEEE (Graduated Fall 2003 - Currently FTE at HP Puerto Rico)

  • Title:        “Behavioral Macromodeling of Sigma-Delta Modulators”
    Student:   Felix O. Fernandez
    Level:      MSEE (Graduated Spring 2003 - Currently TBD)

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» Funded Projects

  • Title: "Test Solutions for Switching Characteristics in HV-FETs"
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez and Rogelio Palomera
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments, Inc.
    Period: Jan-Dec. 2013
  • Title: "Agile Methods for Characterizing Reverse Recovery Parameters in LDMOS"
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez and Rogelio Palomera
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments, Inc.
    Period: Jan-Dec. 2013
  • Title: " 2013 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera , Manuel Jiménez, Gladys O. Ducoudray, and Agnes Padovani
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2013
  • Title: “2012 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs:: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2012
  • Title: “2011 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2011
  • Title: “2010 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs:: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2010
  • Title: “L-DMOS Diode Reverse-Recovery Measurement Method and Set-up”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez, Rogelio Palomera
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January – December 2008
  • Title: “2009 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2009
  • Title: “2008 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2008
  • Title: “2007 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys O. Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2007
  • Title: “Study of System-level Design Methodologies for Implementing SAR Support Algorithms”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez, Domingo Rodriguez, Nayda Santiago, and Ana Nieves
    Sponsor: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Period: January-December 2007
  • Title: “ATE/TPS 44 Voltage Regulator THT to SMT Redesign and Prototyping”
    PIs: Pedro Resto, Manuel Jiménez
    Sponsor: Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation
    Period: January-October 2006
  • Title: “Integrated Methodology for IPEM Gate Driver Layout Improvement – 2007 Continuation”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES)
    Period: August 2006 – July 2007
  • Title: “2006 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, Gladys O. Ducoudray, and Manuel Toledo
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2006
  • Title: “Integrated Methodology for IPEM Gate Driver Layout Improvement – 2006 Continuation”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES)
    Period: August 2005 – July 2006
  • Title: “Study of Controller Architectures and GLP Regulations for the Smart Drug Delivery Platform”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez, and Gladys Omayra Ducoudray
    Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard Corporation
    Period: Summer 2005
  • Title: “2005 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, and Manuel Toledo
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-December 2005
  • Title: “Hardware and Software Tools to Support Embedded/DSP Systems Education at UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, Domingo Rodriguez, M. Toledo
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January-August 2005
  • Title: “Integrated Methodology for IPEM Gate Driver Layout Improvement”
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez, and Miguel Vélez-Reyes
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES)
    Period: August 2004 – July 2005
  • Title: “2004 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital, and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at the UPRM”
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, Manuel Toledo Quiñones
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January 2004 – December 2004
  • Title: "Integrated Modeling and Design of Integrated Power Electronic Modules (IPEMs)"
    PIs: Miguel Vélez-Reyes, Jorge González, Manuel Jiménez
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)
    Period: August 2003 - July 2004 
  • Title: "2003 Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital, and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at the UPRM"
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, Manuel Toledo Quiñones
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January 2003 - December 2003
  • Title: "Continuation of the TI Analog, Digital, and Mixed-signal Electronics Program at the UPRM"
    PIs: Rogelio Palomera, Manuel Jiménez, Manuel Toledo Quiñones
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January 2002 - December 2002
  • Title: "Development of a Cost Model for Integrated Power Electronic Modules"
    PIs: Agustín Rullán and Manuel Jiménez,
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)
    Period: July 2001 - June 2002
  • Title: "Extension of the Integrated Circuits Design Laboratory to Include Testing Facilities"
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez  and Rogelio Palomera 
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: January 2001- June 2002
  • Title: "Development of a Rapid Systems Prototyping Laboratory"
    PIs: Manuel Jiménez, Domingo Rodriguez, and Ramón Vásquez
    Sponsors: PRECISE Project, Xilinx Corp. (XUP), and Texas Instruments
    Period: August 2000 - June 2002
  • Title: "System-level Simulation of IPEM-Based Electric Drives"
    PIs: Miguel Vélez-Reyes, K. Venkatesan, and Manuel Jiménez
    Sponsor: Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)
    Period: August 2000 - May 2001
  • Title: "Establishment of an Analog Integrated Circuit Design Emphasis Area in the UPRM"
    PI: Manuel Jiménez 
    Sponsor: Texas Instruments
    Period: August 1999 - June 2002
  • Title: "The Establishment of an Aquaculture Research Center"
    PIs: Ricardo Cortés, Manuel Jiménez, John Kubaryk, Fernando Bird, and Edna Negrón
    Sponsor: Administración de Fomento Económico, Puerto Rico
    Period: August 1993 - June 1996
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» Undergraduate Research Students

  • Project:    "Statistical Analysis of Chargepumping Techniques for On-Wafer MOSFET Characterization"
    Students:   Johan Castrillón, Angel De La Torre, and Jailene Hernández
    Term(s):    Spring 2013
  • Project:    “High-Speed Signal Integrity in Board-level Interconnects”
    Students:    Anibal Mas, Steven N. Bangdiwala, Juan Negrón, José Fuentes
    Term(s):    Fall 2012, Spring 2013
  • Project:    “Free Vehicle Embedded Instrumentation and Data Logger”
    Students:    Armando Vega
    Term(s):    Fall 2012 

  • Project:    “LabView Implementation of DC Measurements Test Procedures”
    Students:    Gustavo Hornedo, Roberto Arias, Luz M. Gonzalez, Nataina Vélez
    Term(s):    Spring 2012 
  • Project:    “Characterization of Transient Shifts in Threshold Voltage in Integrated MOSFETs”Students:    Javier Peña, Luis Malavé, Lisnel Morales
    Term(s):    Spring and Fall 2012        
  • Project:    “Surf Zone Drifters Sensing System for the Study of Ocean Currents”
    Student:    Alberto Espada, Javier Vázquez, Erik Santiago, and Anthony Banks
    Term(s):    Fall 2011       
  • Project:    “Parametric DC Measurements for wafer-level integrated Devices”
    Student:    William Morales-García and Mario J. Rodriguez-Melendez
    Term(s):    Spring 2010 – Spring 2011       
  • Project:    “Charge Pumping Techniques for Oxide Trap Location ID in Integrated MOSFETs”
    Students:    Robertson Céspedes_Naut and Carlos G. Melendez-Morales
    Term(s):    Spring 2011 through Spring 2012       
  • Project:    “Development of an FPGA-based Embedded Bit Error Ratio Interface”
    Student:    Alex Suarez, Armando Doval, and Luis A. Malavé
    Term(s):    Spring 2011       
  • Project:    “Characterization of Transient Shifts in Threshold Voltage in Integrated MOSFETs”
    Students:    Yadriel Gonzalez-Perez
    Term(s):    Fall 2009 – Fall 2010       
  • Project:    “Design Methods for a Scalable, Complex Format, Floating Point Adder for Signal Processing
        Applications on FPGAs”
    Student:    Jazmín Lantigua, and Arnaldo Cruz
    Term(s):    Spring 2007       
  • Project:    “Developing a fast method for electromagnetic interference estimation”
    Student:    Jennifer García-Green
    Term(s):    Fall 2006       
  • Project:    “Iterative Improvement Algorithms for Low EMI in the PCB Design of PE Boards”
    Student:    Juan David Bustamante and Arnaldo Cruz
    Term(s):    Fall 2006       
  • Project:    “Obsolecense Risk Assessment and THT to SMT Redesign in and ATPE-44 Power Board”
    Student:    Freddy Jusino
    Term(s):    Fall05-Spring 2006       
  • Project:    “Design of a Two-Stage OTA for Sigma-Delta Modulators in the GSM Band”
    Student:    Christian Maldonado and José A. Rodriguez
    Term(s):    Spring 2006       
  • Project:    “Parsing Methods for GERBER Specification and Segment Decomposition”
    Student:    Alexis Pérez, Rodney Rodriguez Carrasquillo, and Edgardo Porcell Torres
    Term(s):    Fall 2005       
  • Project:    “Design of a Two-Stage OTA for Sigma-Delta Modulators in the GSM Band”
    Student:    Christian Maldonado and William Rivera
    Term(s):    Fall 2005       
  • Project:    “Improvement Evaluation Methods for Gate Driver PCB Layouts in IPEMs”
    Student:    Jose V. Santos Martinez and Rodney Rodriguez Carrasquillo
    Term(s):    Spring 2005       
  • Project:    “Parasitic Extraction on Gate Driver for Integrated Power Electronic Modules ”
    Student:    Jose V. Santos Martinez and Rodney Rodriguez Carrasquillo
    Term(s):    Fall 2004       
  • Project:    “Synthesis Automation of Scalable, Pipelined Floating-point Arithmetic Structures”
    Student:    Abdiel Avilés and Marcos Mejías
    Term(s):    Fall 2004       
  • Project:    “Design of an Addressable, Wireless, Low-power Sensor Interface for the MSP430  ”
    Student:    Carlos Rivera Borrero
    Term(s):    Fall 2004       
  • Project:    “Remote Data Transmission Using Reflected Impedance on  Inductively Coupled Coils ”
    Student:    Hersel O. Rodriguez Irizarry and Sulabel Sánchez Avila
    Term(s):    Spring 2004       
  • Project:    “Resistive, Capacitive, & Inductive Sensor Interfaces for Temperature Measurement in an  MSP430 ”
    Student:    Kayri M. Cherena Caraballo and William Morales Rivera
    Term(s):    Spring 2004       
  • Project:    “Power Consumption Analysis of the MSP430 for a Wireless Temperature Sensor Application”
    Student:    Carlos Rivera Borrero
    Term(s):    Spring 2004       
  • Project:    “Instructional Modules for Teaching Hardware Description Languages”
    Student:    Dalimar Vega, Jorge del Valle
        Joel Díaz, and Marcos Mejías
    Term(s):    Fall 2003 - Spring 2004       
  • Project:    “IrDA Stack Using the MSP430”
    Student:    Melisa Núñez, Pedro Zayas, and Jennifer Crespo
    Term(s):    Fall 2002 - Spring 2003       
  • Project:    “A Universal Laboratory Information System”
    Student:    Cesar Smith and Ricardo Sánchez
    Term(s):    Fall 2002       
  • Project:    “Design Explorations in Low-Voltage Differential Signaling Drivers”
    Student:    Angel Rivera
    Term(s):    Spring 2002       
  • Project:    “Development of a Communications Protocol for a Wireless Voting System”
    Student:    Elfred Pagán Morales
    Term(s):    Spring 2002       
  • Project:    “Layout Design of a BiCMOS Current Mirror Low-voltage”
    Student:    Andrés Rosado Sepúlveda
    Term(s):    Fall 2001       
  • Project:    “Implementation of a Voice Over IP Channel on an PPC-405 Embedded System”
    Students:    Ricardo Sánchez, Angel Perez
         Cesar Smith-Lao, and Bruce Sheplan
    Term(s):    Independent Study/IAP, Spring 2002       
  • Project:    “Parasitic Extraction in Virtual Prototypes of Integrated Power Electronic Modules (IPEMs)”
    Student:    George Suárez Martínez
    Term(s):    Spring 2002, Spring 2003       
  • Project:    “Reducing the Hardware Requirements of Parallel Saturating Adders for Multioperand Operations”
    Student:    Elianne Bravo Fuentes and Cristian Medina Abkarian
    Term(s):    Spring 2002       
  • Project:    “Sensitivity Análisis for Third Order IC Filters”
    Student:    Angel Casiano Ruiz, Marisol Figueroa
    Term(s):    Fall 2001       
  • Project:    “Design of a Low-power, Low-voltage Current Mirror”
    Student:    Andrés Rosado Sepúlveda
    Term(s):    Fall 2001       
  • Project:    “Speeding-up Simulated Annealing for Low-power Physical Design Problems”
    Student:    José Luis Vásquez Rivera
    Term(s):    Fall 2001       
  • Project:    “Low-noise and Low-voltage Bandgap Reference”
    Student:    Kelvin Avilés, Pedro Alicea
    Term(s):    IAP Project, 2000-2001       
  • Project:    “Design of a Low-Voltage Differential Signaling Driver with Adjustable Common-mode Output
        Voltage”
    Student:    Elianne Bravo, Angel Rivera
    Term(s):    IAP Project, 2000-2001       
  • Project:    “Design of an Internet Phone (Interphone)”
    Student:    Angel Pérez, and Bruce Sheplan
    Term(s):    IAP Project, 2000-2001       
  • Project:    “Improvement of the Testing Procedures in an Eagle Tester”
    Student:    Michael Vega and Walter Justiniano
    Term(s):    IAP Project, 2000-2001       
  • Project:    “Design of a Wireless Voting System”
    Student:    Wilfredo Maldonado, Angel Bon, Ana Medina
        Gustavo Rodríguez, and Rafael Santiago
    Term(s):    Fall 2000       
  • Project:    “Design of Scalable Floating-point Arithmetic Units”
    Student:    IrvingOrtiz, Carlos Ortiz
        Teddy J. Torres, and Jorge Martinez
    Term(s):    Fall 2000       
  • Project:    “Modeling of Composite Transistors Based on Nullors”
    Students:    José García, Carlos Feliciano
    Term(s):    Spring 2000       
  • Project:    “Development of a Programmable Fertigation System”
    Students:    Roberto Aquino, Ony Anglade, and Orlando Santiago
    Term(s):    IAP Project, Spring 1994       
  • Project:    “LAZARUS: A Computer Controlled Robot”
    Students:    José M. Miranda, Miguel A. Rodríguez
    Term(s):    IAP Project, Spring 1994       
  • Project:    “LAZARUS: Voice Interface”
    Students:    José F. Santiago, Edgar Cuevas, and Miguel Rivera
    Term(s):    IAP Project, Spring 1994       
  • Project:    “FWADA: Field Water Analysis and Data Acquisition”
    Students:    Robert Aquino, Roberto Montes, Mario Ronda, & Leobardo Villegas
    Term(s):    IAP Project, Spring 1993    
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Dr. Manuel Jiménez
Professor
Office:
222B Stefani Bldg.
Phone:
(787)832-4040 Ext. 3780
Fax:
(787)831-7564
E-mail:

mjimenez@ece.uprm.edu

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