SNN Hough-transform hardware
Carleton's SHaRe program highlighted the FPGA-oriented Hough-transform work by Aaron Yu, Arash Ahmadi, and Leonard MacEachern. Final bibliographic metadata remains linked through the publication record.
News and Current Activity
A dated record of research, teaching, student, and departmental developments.
2026
Chair, Department of Electronics
MacEachern continues as Department Chair while maintaining active research in interconnect, conversion, AI hardware, and detector electronics.
2025
Three MASc theses in conversion and AI hardware
Seth Thompson completed work on an interleaved SAR ADC; Ruihang Wang on ASIC spiking neural networks for the Hough transform; and Jonathan Aaron Levine on hardware-accelerated binarized neural networks.
Adaptive mixed-signal optical interfaces
An invited research discussion addressed next-generation optical-interconnect circuits and system questions.
2024
Department chair appointment
MacEachern became Chair of Carleton University's Department of Electronics in July 2024.