From 15 July 2025 to 18 July 2025, Prof. Ing. Owen Casha attended CODIT 2025, the 11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, which was held in Split, Croatia. The conference was organised at the Radisson Blu Resort & Spa. Prof. Ing. Owen Casha, from the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, presented a paper titled "Characterization of PCB Fabrication Processes for a Systematic and Efficient Design of Microstrip Circuits".
This paper proposes an algorithm to aid in the characterisation of a printed circuit board fabrication process before the design of microstrip circuits. By accurately characterising the electrical properties of a printed circuit board process, one can achieve a systematic and efficient design of microstrip circuits with reduced iteration cycles. The algorithm employs a mean-squared-error optimization technique while making use of de-embedded scattering parameter data from some sample microstrip transmission lines to estimate printed circuit board electrical parameters such as the tangent loss and the relative permittivity for a particular frequency range.
Prof. Ing. Casha also chaired one of the sessions held on 15 July 2025 titled "Cloud Computing and Wireless Communications".
