Emmanuel Boutillon

Professor at the UBS (Universite de Bretagne Sud), Lorient, France, in the Lab-STICC.laboratory (UMR 6285)

Lab-STICC - Centre de recherche

Université de Bretagne Sud

56325 Lorient Cedex

Tel : (+) 2 97 87 45 66

Secretary : (+) 2 97 87 45 60

Fax : (+) 2 97 87 45 27

email : Emmanuel.Boutillon@univ-ubs.fr

Teaching

LICENCE 2 GEII : Mathematic, logic
LICENCE 3 GEII : Electronics
MASTER 1 GEII : Linear control (state models), theory of random signal, FPGA, VHDL
MASTER 2 GEII : Signal processingLinear control (state models), theory of random signal
MASTER RESEARCH electronics

Work experience

2011 : I made a one year sabbatical stay in INICTEL (Lima, Peru)
Since Sept 2000 : Professor at UBS (Lab-STICC)
1997-2000: Assistant professor ("Maitre de Conférences") in the department COMELEC of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) (Paris, France).
1997-98: I made a one year sabbatical stay in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (from August 98 to July 99), working, with professor Glenn Gulak, on VLSI architectures for communication systems.
1996: I worked six months in the Philips research laboratory of Paris (LEP: Laboratoire d'Electronique de Philips, Limeil Brevannes, France) on the developement of a real time MPEG-2 encoder circuit.
1992-1995: I worked as a research engineer in the electronic departement (ELEC) of ENST.
1993-1995: Ph D thesis while working as a research engineer in ENST.
1990-1992: I worked as a professor in a telecommunication school of West Africa (ESMT: Ecole Superieure Multinationale des Telecommunications) in Dakar (Senegal).
1986-1990: Undergraduate studies at ENST.

PhD students

Current PhD-Students :

Former PhD-Students :

Cedric Marchand, "Architecture of LDPC decoders", PHd with NXP (PhD report (3.4 Mo))
Aswhani Singh, "Flexible turbo/ldpc decoders", PHd with Guido Masera, Politecnico de Torino
Sébastien Trégaro (July 2009), "Détection et estimation de signaux radars", PHd with RUBISOFT
Haisheng Liu (July 2009), "Contributions à la maîtrise de la consommation dans des turbo-décodeurs", PHd with ENST-Bretagne, (PhD report (3.4 Mo))
Jeremie Guillot (sept. 2008), "Optimization Techniques for High Level Synthesis and pre-Compilation based on Taylor Expansion Diagrams", joint project with prof. Ciesielski, (PhD report (4.7 Mo))
Amor Nafkha, (march 2006), "Architecture MIMO", PHd, PALMYRE PROJECT (PhD report (2.4 Mo))
Pierre Bomel , , "Automatic implementation of GALS", PHd PALMYRE PROJECT. (PhD report (1.9 Mo))
David Gnaedig, "Turbo-Codes à roulettes", PHd with Turbo-Concept company.(PhD report (2.8 Mo))
Frederic Guilloud, "Architecture générique de décodeur de codes LDPC" (PhD report (2.6 Mo))
Olivier Gay-Bellile , "Programmable architecture for channel decoding" (abstract), (PhD report (1.2 Mo))
Luis Gonzalez, "VLSI architecture for combined source-channel coding" (abstract), (PhD report (1.6 Mo))

Research and interest

My research area is in VLSI architectures and communications.

Current research area :

Previous research area :

Taylor Expansion Diagrams : (more information in TED project).
Hardware correlator: (more information in Hardware correlator project).
Generic MIMO decoder: (more information in Generic MIMO decoder project).
(2001-2006) Slice Turbo Code : (more information in Slice Turbo Code project).
(2000-2002) White Gaussian Noise Generator for channel emulation (more information in WGNG project).
(1999-2001) Forward-Backward (or MAP, BJCR) project: this project deals on the construction of an WEB site dedicated to VLSI for MAP algorithm. Some datas are presently available (FORWARD-BACKWARD ARCHITECTURE).
(1995-1999) Auger Project: During the 3 last years, I have also been involved in the design of the telecommunication network of the international AUGER PROJECT (two 3000 km2 giant cosmic rays detector).

Decodign architecture of Cortex code (2010-2012)
Vertical shuffling of DVB-S2 LDPC decoder (2011)
Demodulateur architecture for DVB-S2 standard (2010)
ELINT systems(2005).
Slice Turbo Code (since 2001).
Specification and hardware realization of a familly of digital demodulators for a radio application (1996-1999).
Soft Reed-Solomon decoder (1998).
Realisation of a real time "smart" Variable Length Coding for an MPEG-2 encoder (1997).
First generation of a digital demodulator with a CLP ( FLEX10K50) (1996).
Realisation in standard cell (VHDL synthesis) of a real time DCT-IDCT for an MPEG-2 encoder (20 K gates, 27 MHz, precision compatible with the MPEG-2 standard) (1995).
Work with the team that has defined the Array-Ol formalizen to describe array signal processing (1993 - 1994).
Architecture study for an 30 MHz viterbi decoder for a 4 Dimentional TCM modulation (1992).

Publications

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