page_title: Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology / Research
caption_attribution_description: English: MSIT ECE team (Xencom) with their Kit
context_page_description: Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology is an engineering and management college located in Kolkata, India. The college is located in eastern suburb of the city at Nazirabad, Sonarpur Chowbaga behind Ruby General Hospital. The college is approved by the AICTE and the Directorate of Technical Education, and affiliated with West Bengal University of Technology. It offers bachelor's degrees in six streams - Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
  It conducts postgraduate programmes in Computer Application, and Master of Technology programs in Computer Science and Geo-Technical Engineering.
context_section_description: A major boost in MSIT's research platform came with a DRDO project on image processing in 2005. The project was hosted in this institute for more than two years and was carried out jointly by faculties and students from ECE and CSE/IT departments. The main research groups in this institute are - the Data Communication research group, the VLSI group.
  The Data Communication Research hub, constructed in 2008, is equipped with Routers, Switches, Wireless Access Point  etc. hardware and software including some indigenous protocol simulation tools, Packet Tracer etc. The first director of the Communication Hub was Prof. Debasish Datta, the then Head of E&EC department, IIT Kharagpur. Under his supervision some faculties and some students gifted the institute a research lab with its own course material and some indigenous protocol simulators. A number of times the lab has been used by researchers and professors from other institutes for its uniqueness. Research teams, composed of third and fourth year students and guide Professors, still work in the lab. Papers on Mobile Communication have been authored by researchers of this lab which have been published in national and international journals.
  The VLSI group, working in the Advanced VLSI Design Lab, in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering has published more than 50 research papers in international journals/conferences. Professors working in this lab have written books. The group mainly works on CMOS ultra low power designs, CNT etc.
  Design teams from the dept. of ECE has participated in many prestigious design competitions and brought accolades. A team from the VLSI group, led by Prof. Manash Chanda of dept. of Electronics and Communication, ranked within top five positions in an electronic design contest organised by Cadence in 2010, and took part in the Symposium organised at Noida. In 2015, the design of an automatic intelligent Irrigation system of ECE department's design team 'Xencom', led by Prof. Sudip Dogra, won the runner-up prize at Texas Instruments India Innovation Challenge 2015, organised by Texas Instruments. A startup named 'Xencom Automation' based on this innovation, is in the process of launching.
  There is a student branch of IEEE in MSIT.
caption: ECE design team (Xencom) at Texas Instruments India Innovation Challenge, 2015
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