Rui Manuel Escadas Ramos Martins

português

Personal Data:

Birthday: 27 / July / 1968  - Porto, Portugal


Rui Manuel Escadas Ramos Martins is an Auxiliar Professor at the Electronic, Telecommunication and Informatics Department of  University of Aveiro and a researcher at IEETA

Societies:

·  Membro, Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal

·  Member, IEEE

Address:

Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193  AVEIRO - PORTUGAL


Tel.: ++351-234370500
Fax: ++351-234370545
E-mail: rmm@ua.pt

Education:

September / 1991 - 'Licenciado' degree, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal

January / 1994 - MSc., Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal

February / 1999 - PhD., Electrotechnical Engineering, ‘Institute für Mikroelektronik’, Vienna Technical University, Austria; thesis: On The Design of Very Low-Power Integrated Circuits 

Teaching 2007 / 2008

Electronics I  (1st Semester)

Low Power Electronics  (1st Semester)

Electronics IV (2nd Semester)

For more information see the course’s Webpages: elearning.ua.pt (authorization required)

 Pos-graduation students: (to add soon!)

Current Research Interests

  • VLSI
  • Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD)
  • Biolelectronics

On Going Projects:

Active Dry Electrode for EEG (with INEB, Porto)

  • This project aims the design of novel EEG electrodes that require no skin preparation: 

                                Status: First generation protoype is ready and a patent is being filled.                         See details at: http://www.ieeta.pt/sias/electrodo/

An Ultra Compact ECG Aquisition System 

·        This project aims at the development of a microchip that implements the most important functions of an ECG system which allows a drastic reduction in its volume. Very low-power, low voltage integrated circuit design strategies reduce the power supply needs to a level where only a small (and light) battery is necessary while maintaining a good autonomy. Both reduced volume and weight ease a possible implantation of the overall system in the patient's body. 

·        The chip will be used as a key component in a alarm system for heart deseases.

And many more… (under construction)

 Patents:

·         A. Silva, Rui Martins, J. Cunha, V. Ferreira, J. Sá, M. Barbosa, J. Fonseca, I. Salvado, C. Silva, “Um eléctrodo de tipo seco e activo para monitorização de bio-potenciais,” Portuguese Patent Nbr. 102999, Oct. 2005.

Publications:

Thesis:

·        Rui Manuel E. R. Martins, On the Design of Ultra Low Power Integrated Circuits, PhD. Thesis, Vienna Technical University, Austria, December 1998

·        Rui Manuel E. R. Martins,  Amplificadores CMOS de Baixo Consumo de Corrente, MSc.Dissertation, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, January 1994 (in Portuguese).

 Articles in Internacional Journals:

·        C. Fonseca, J. P. Cunha, Rui E. Martins, V. M. Ferreira, J. P. Marques de Sá, M. A. Barbosa, and A. Martins da Silva, “A novel dry electrode for EEG recording,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 1, pp.162-165, January 2007;

·        W. Pyka, R. Martins, and S. Selberherr, "Optimized Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Cellular Topography Simulation,'' IEEE Trans. Semiconductor Technology Modeling and Simulation. http://www.ieee.org/journal/tcad/, No.20, March 2000.

·        Rui Martins, W. Pyka, R. Sabelka and S. Selberherr, “High Precision Interconnect Analysis,”  IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 17, Nº 11, November 1998.

·        Rui Martins, S. Selberherr, and F. Vaz, “A CMOS IC for Portable EEG Acquisition Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 17, Nº 11, October 1998.

Articles in Internacionais Conferences and Workshops:

·        A. Rocha, A. Pires, R. Martins, and R. Sousa, Dual Polarization Digital Satellite Beacon Detector for Propagation Experiments, in Proc. 13th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, pp. 189-194, Turin, Italy, Sept. 2007;

·        A. Ferrari, Rui Almeida, and Rui Martins, "Extensible multiplier-accumulator blocks for FPGAs," in Proc. 4th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, Cape Town, South Africa, pp.154-159, January 2005.

·        Rui Martins and F. Vaz, “A Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator for Biomedical Integrated Systems,” in Proc. 19th Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS’2004), Bordeaux, France, November, 2004.

·        Rui Martins and H Kirchauer, “Testing the Printability of VLSI Layouts,” in Proc. 14th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and  Systems Design (SBCCI’2001), Pirenópolis, GO, Brazil, September, 2001.

·        P. Justino, J. P. Cunha, and Rui Martins, “Active Impedance Adaptation in EEG: An Integrated Amplifier in Electrodes,” in Proc. Sixth Portuguese Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BIOENG’2001), Faro, Portugal, June, 2001.

·        Rui Martins, W. Pyka, R. Sabelka and S. Selberherr, “Rigorous Capacitance Simulations of DRAM Cells,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD’98), Leuven, Belgium, September, 1998.

·        [4]  Rui Martins, W. Pyka, R. Sabelka and S. Selberherr, “Modeling Integrated Circuit Interconnections,” in Proc. XIII International Conference on Microelectronics and Packaging (ICMP’98), Curitiba, Brasil, August, 1998.

·        Rui Martins, S. Selberherr, and F. Vaz, “A CMOS IC for Portable EEG Acquisition Systems,” in Proc. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Connference, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, pp. 1406-1410, May, 1998.

·        Rui Martins and S. Selberherr, “Layout Data in TCAD Frameworks,” in Proc. European Simulation Multiconference ESM’96, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1122-1126, June, 1996.

 

Oct / 2007