Business Description

The Electronic Research Center (ERC) was founded in 1972 as an independent research organization. Its main activities were devoted to signal processing and digital communications. In 1979, the center merged with the Sharif University of Technology and its management and financial affairs came under the university's general research policies.

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 staff of seven technicians and three secretaries. In addition it has five part-time researchers and a number of graduate students. Close cooperation exists between the center and the departments of Electrical engineering and Computer engineering at Sharif.

Management Team

Board of Director