IIA
Main Campus Koramangala
ELECTRONICS

Electronics Division

Electronics Department at IIA is a part of the Systems Engineering Group. It has state-of-the-art facilities including all the equipment and related software required for design, simulation, development and testing of electronic sub-systems for ground as well as space-based astronomical instruments/telescopes. We have collaborations with several private and government research institutes, labs and leading manufacturers/vendors in the industry across India.

Department has established collaboration with several labs of ISRO and worked for the following programs.

• Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSAT.
• Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) on ADITYA-L1.
• Indian Spectroscopic Imaging Space Telescope (INSIST) -Upcoming UV space-based telescope.

Department is also participating in Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) for Actuators, Edge Sensors, Developing Test Controllers for TMT Segment Support Assembly (SSA), TMT Warping Harness test and measuring equipment.

Major Activities

1. Design and development of electronics & software subsystems in coordination with the mechanical, optical and scientific teams at IIA
2. Development/characterization of Astronomical Detector Systems using CCD/CMOS Sensors for ground-based and space based telescopes.
3. Support for On-board controls for space-based astronomical telescopes and instruments after the deployment in space.
4. Control Instruments for our ground-based observatories and space telescopes.
5. FPGA, SoC and Microcontroller based instruments for telescope control systems and backend instruments.
6. Software development in Python, Matlab and C for ground and space-based telescopes.
7. Development of software and simulations for observatory control systems.
8. Schematic design and PCB design for in-house developed instruments.
9. Maintenance of telescopes and related equipment located at various observatories of IIA.
10. Guidance and technical consultations to students via Visiting Student Programme (VSP) and M.Tech-PhD programme.