Dr Louise Crockett
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I completed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Strathclyde, and joined the University staff in 2007 as a Research Fellow. I subsequently worked as a Teaching Fellow / Senior Teaching Fellow, before switching to Senior Lecturer in 2025. I work within the Strathclyde Software Defined Radio (StrathSDR) research group, where I lead a small team of staff / PhD researchers, and engage in industry-facing projects.
Key areas I'm involved in are the hardware implementation of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems, primarily for wireless communications applications, and Software Defined Radio (SDR). I focus on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SoC) devices and related technologies, and the design tools and methods that support them. Working in a field of direct relevance to industry really appeals to me.
In my teaching, I deliver classes on Hardware Description Language (HDL) design, Simulink-based design, and FPGAs, focusing on practical skills that will equip graduates for roles in industry. I also generate training materials for the wider academic community (and beyond), and I have co-authored several books on my areas of interest, the most recent of which is "Software Defined Radio with Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC" (published 2023).
Area of Expertise
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms and architectures
- Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- AMD / Xilinx FPGAs, SoCs, and design flows
- AMD / Xilinx Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC)
- 5G / 6G Advanced Wireless Communications
- MATLAB & Simulink based design for FPGAs
- VHDL
- DSP / FPGA professional training
- Technical authorship, illustration, editing and publishing
Prize And Awards
- Best Student Paper Award
- Recipient
- 29/5/2018
Publications
- Analysis and implementation of DVB-S2 in the UHF band for STRATHcube downlink communications
- Stebbings Daniel, Crockett Louise, Clemente Carmine, Vasile Massimiliano
- 2025 European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference (EDHPC) European Data Handling and Data Processing Conference 2025 (2026)
- Farrow-based true time-delay FPGA wideband digital beamforming architecture
- Provan Ryan, Crockett Louise, Stewart Robert, Weiss Stephan
- 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC65549.2025.11326371
- CP-OFDM PUSCH model-based design for 5G new radio transmitter on ZCU216 RFSoC
- Craig James, Crockett Louise, Stewart Robert, Bowyer Ian, Rice Garrey
- 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC65549.2025.11326540
- Encoding time series on an FPGA, with an efficient Izhikevich neuron implementation
- Borrill Thomas, Crockett Louise, Thomas Kevin, Di Caterina Gaetano
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2026)
- A single-chip split-6 PHY implementation for 5G NR, using RFSoC and PYNQ
- Brown Lewis J, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- Franklin Open Vol 13 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fraope.2025.100408
- Detection of weak transient broadband signals : subspace and likelihood ratio test approaches
- Pahalson Cornelius Allamis Dawap, Crockett Louise, Weiss Stephan
- Science Talks Vol 14 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2025.100451
Teaching
I'm currently teaching:
- Introductory VHDL & FPGA Design (2nd/3rd year) - Students are introduced to the VHDL hardware description language, working with FPGA development boards, and the concept of a design flow.
- Further VHDL & FPGA Design (3rd/4th year) - Continuing from the Introductory class, further topics in VHDL, block-based FPGA design tools, System on Chip (SoC) embedded systems, and the PYNQ software/hardware framework.
- DSP and FPGA Based Embedded Systems Design (5th year / MSc) - I teach the FPGA-focused section of the class, covering the implementation of DSP systems on FPGAs, including arithmetic, filters, multirate operations, numerically controlled oscillators, the CORDIC technique, and some wireless communications context.
I also have experience teaching various aspects of digital logic, state machines, DSP theory, wireless communications theory and design, synchronisation, and other topics. I supervise 4th year, 5th year and MSc projects in these and related areas.
Professional Activities
- RFSoC with PYNQ: A Crash Course!
- Speaker
- 15/12/2025
- RFSoC & PYNQ in Action: From 5G to Quantum and Beyond!
- Speaker
- 11/12/2025
- Software Defined Radio Prototyping of AI-Enabled Systems Towards 6G
- Speaker
- 9/12/2025
- IEEE Global Communications Conference
- Participant
- 8/12/2025
- Short Course: AMD Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC) – Architecture, System Development, and Applications
- Speaker
- 22/1/2025
- RFSoC with PYNQ: A Crash Course
- Speaker
- 13/12/2024
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Harris, Finlay
- Crockett, Louise (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) Harris, Finlay (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2024 | Gillan, Euan
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Co-investigator) Gillan, Euan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- Spectrum Sharing and Sensing in non-3GPP Bands for 5G/6G
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Open Networks Shared Spectrum and Innovation Design Environment ONSIDE
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator) Crockett, Louise (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025
- 5G New Radio PHY Layer Implementation
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | McLaughlin, Lewis
- Crockett, Louise (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) McLaughlin, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2023
Contact
Dr
Louise
Crockett
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: louise.crockett@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2684