5.2.5 Sharif Electronics Research Center

The Electronic Research Center (ERC) was founded in 1972 as anindependent research organization. Its main activities were devoted tosignal processing and digital communications. In 1979, the center mergedwith the Sharif University of Technology and its management and financialaffairs came under the university's general research policies.

 

Table 5.3: Contact Information for Sharif Electronic Research Center.

Electronics Research Center	Tel: +98 21 600-551
Sharif University of Technology	Fax: +98 21 603-0318
Azadi Ave	Email: erc@sina.sharif.ac.ir
Tehran, Iran	http://sina.sharif.ac.ir/ $\sim$ erc

At present, the main areas of research the center are:

• Speech ciphering
  
• Speech processing and recognition
  
• Cryptography and data security
  
• Digital and radar signal processing
  
• VLSI circuit design and testing
  
• Radio communication circuits andsubsystems
  
• Design of programmable logic controllers
  

The center's staff comprises twelve researchers with a supporting staffof seven technicians and three secretaries. In addition it has fivepart-time researchers and a number of graduate students. Closecooperation exists between the center and the departments of Electricalengineering and Computer engineering at Sharif.