New items:
Fall 2007 courses:
  • ECGR 4123, Analog and Dig. Comms.
  • ECGR 6101, Adv. Computer Graphics
    (Replaces ECGR 3090/6090 Video Game Design)
  • Anticipated Spring 2008 courses:
  • ECGR 4124, Digital Signal Processing
  • ECGR 6114, Digital Signal Processing II

  • Thomas Weldon, Ph.D., P.E.
    Associate Professor
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    222B Woodward Hall
    9201 Univ. City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223

    Resume
    Map to my office and campus maps

    E-mail: tpweldon@uncc.edu
    Any email may not be private or may be subject to North Carolina’ Public Records laws. Email is usually the best way to contact me. You may also contact the department staff in an emergency.

    Office Hours (varies by semester):
    Spring 2008: Mon and Weds: 3:00-4:00 and 7:45 (right after class). Students may also meet with me after my classes. Please try to be at my office at the beginning of office hours. On occasion, I may not be available during these hours due to conflicting meetings or travel. You may also stop by my office at other times during the week. I can often be found in computer labs helping students, or room 140 right after my last class. You may also reach me at tpweldon@uncc.edu.


    Projects:

    Research on "serious games." Video games and game engines can be used to develop educational games, to train employees and emergency personnel, to manipulate or visualize data, to simulate robotic systems, and to prototype complex systems.
    See a simple Space Shuttle game-based simulator, check my Advanced Computer Graphics course, and see other applications at the Serious Games Summit.

    Research on patented "super-linear transistors" for wireless RF integrated circuits (RFIC) consisting of a PMOS FET in parallel with an NMOS FET. (see patents below)
    IEEE RFIC 2005 paper on new "super-linear transistors."

    Java/Netbeans tutorial added. Quick tutorial on how to use Java/Netbeans to create an program to display images, write files, paint, etc. See also example Java/Netbeans program ImgProJv41 .

    Research on patented linearization methods for wireless RF integrated circuits (RFIC). See US 6,794,938 patent cover sheet and US 6,794,938 full patent for linearization methods, IEEE IMS 2003 paper on linearization methods and a recent thesis on these linearization methods.

    Research on patented Built-In Self-Test (BIST) methods for digital circuits including SRAM. In particular: 1) digital circuits are tested with voltages between normal logic level voltages, and 2) digital circuits are tested by inducing controlled-width power supply current pulses (controlled-Iddt).
    US 6,833,724 patent cover sheet and US 6,833,724 full patent for BIST.

    Research on a mixed-signal fault simulator for mixed-signal Built-In Self-Test (BIST)
    Sponsored by DARPA NeoCAD project, and managed by Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, USAF, Wright-Patterson AFB.

    RF / Wireless Engineering Laboratory for radio frequency and microvave systems and devices.

    The development of Mixed-signal Integrated Circuits and design tools.

    Agilent ADS design software lab for radio frequency design.

    Ground penetrating radar (GPR) paper , and an older introductory paper.

    An image texture-segmentation program called teXan.

    A general image processing program called X2D .

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    Multiresolution Design of Gabor Filter Banks for Texture Segmentation research summary. This novel method enables simultaneous design of both
    1. a set of tuned Gabor filters
    2. and an accompanying Bayesian classifier.

    An audio signal-processing program called Xvox .

    Lung segmentation and OpenGL rendering of segmented airway.

    Document analysis of mixed text/halftone documents.

    Introduction to UNIX and C++.

    Matlab bugs

    Using our base of existing signal-processing and software, we can quickly develop custom solutions for you.
    Discover what we can do for you.


    Courses I am teaching

    ECGR 3090/6090 Video Game Design
    (replaced by ECGR6101 Adv. Computer Graphics)
    ECGR 6101, Adv. Computer Graphics
    ECGR 6264, Radio Design
    ECGR 4124, Digital Signal Processing
    ECGR 6118, Image Processing

    ECGR 4123, Analog and Dig. Communications
    ECGR 6437, Mixed signal VLSI
    ECGR 3111, System Analysis I
    ECGR 2111, Network Theory I
    ECGR 6114, Digital Signal Processing II

    Recent Papers/Publications


    Etc.

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  • New Java/Netbeans tutorial

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  • For Students (please check that the links are up to date, since things move!):
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering programs
  • Academic calendar
  • Graduate school and Forms for Thesis manual, committees, etc.
  • Example outside Editors/proofreaders :

  • (Buyer Beware!, these are just unknown examples...)
    ... they dont write it, ... they just clean it up!
  • yahoo
  • GottaBeWrite.com
  • thesisproofreader.com
  • englishedit.com
  • scribendi.com (48 hours?)
  • Professional Organizations:
  • IEEE
  • SPIE
  • North Carolina Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors
  • NSPE
  • 1957 - 2003 statistics from Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Hourly wage and labor force (1000's) and unemployment (%)
  • Worldwide Tax Comparisons.

  • Computer Security
  • Spyware and spywareinfo.com and doxdesk.com and Spybot freeware
  • Peter G. Neumann risks/errors/catastrophes
  • Map showing location of UNC Charlotte.


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