Dr. Yair Linn received his B.Sc. (with honors) in computer engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1996. In the years 1996-2001 he was employed as an electrical engineer in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, where he worked with the development, implementation, and deployment of wireless communications systems. From 2002-2007 he completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In 2008-2010 he was a visiting professor in electronic engineering at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and also at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. He is currently an ASIC and FPGA DSP design engineer in the semiconductor company PMC-Sierra in Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Dr. Linn was awarded the Jean MacDonald Graduate Fellowship scholarship as a winner of the University Graduate Fellowship competition at UBC in 2002. In April 2003, he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), as a winner of the 2003/4 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Competition. In April 2005, he was awarded an NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship as a winner of the 2005/6 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Competition. In November 2005 he was awarded the Bell Canada 125th Anniversary Graduate Scholarship.
Dr. Linn's research interests include synchronization in wireless receivers, estimation of wireless channel parameters, and implementation of real-time digital signal processing algorithms in FPGAs and ASICs.
CPEN 311 |
Digital Systems Design Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages (HDLs) and CAD tools. Design with programmable logic including FPGA's. Applications include complex state machines, microcontrollers, arithmetic circuits, and interface units. Credit can be given for only one of CPEN 311 or EECE 379. [3-3-0] |
ELEC 432 |
Digital Communications Formulation of the digital communication problem; definition of information, source and channel coding; digital modulation techniques, signal space, design of optimum digital receivers and performance calculations; trellis coded modulation; spread spectrum techniques; issues in wireless communication techniques and new standards. Prerequisite ELEC 431- Communication Systems |
2012 |
An Ultra Low Cost Wireless Communications Laboratory for Education and Research Journal Article | IEEE Transactions on Education |
2009 |
A Carrier-Independent Non-Data-Aided Real-Time SNR Estimator for M-PSK and D-MPSK Suitable for FPGAs and ASICs Journal Article | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I |
2009 |
Robust M-PSK Phase Detectors for Carrier Synchronization PLLs in Coherent Receivers: Theory and Simulations Journal Article | IEEE Transactions on Communications |
2006 |
A Self-Normalizing Symbol Synchronization Lock Detector for QPSK and BPSK Journal Article | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
2004 |
Quantitative Analysis of a New Method for Real-Time Generation of SNR Estimates for Digital Phase Modulation Signals Journal Article | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
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