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All research laboratories are used by students working toward either their Masters or Ph.D. degree. In addition, undergraduate students may also use these facilities for independent work study (ESE 499).
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Contact Person: Prof. John Murray Location: Room 116, Light Engineering The digital signal processing laboratory has PC-based and VME-based signal processing equipment, and an excellent complement of basic test equipment. The PC-based equipment includes systems with Texas Instruments fixed- and floating-point processors (TMS320C1x, TMS320C2x, TMS320C3x) with full analog-in to analog-out capabilities, and in-circuit emulation. In addition, there are full sets of development tools (assemblers, linkers, simulators, and debuggers) for all three generations, and C compilers for the second and third generations. The VME-based equipment includes several VME card-cages, an assortment of A/D and D/A converters, and a Radisys EPC-3 controller (which consists of a PC on a VME-bus board). The test equipment includes oscilloscopes, power supplies, meters, and signal generators. The lab also has a high-speed Tektronix 7904 oscilloscope with various plug-ins, including a logic analyzer, and a H-P 3585-A spectrum analyzer. Contact Person: Prof. M. Subbarao Location: Room 248, Light Engineering This laboratory has state-of-the-art equipment for experimental research in three-dimensional machine vision. The facilities include 3 SUN SPARCstations, 2 PCs, video cameras, digitizers, laser printers, etc. Microwave Electronics Laboratory Contact Person: Prof. Jayant Parekh Location: Room 281A, Light Engineering The equipment in the Microwave Electronics Laboratory includes a scalar network analyzer (Hewlett Packard 8410B) as well as a vector network analyzer (Hewlett Packard 8510A). The most recent experimental projects include studies of magnetostatic waves in epitaxial YIG films. Optical Signal Processing and Fiber Optics Sensors Laboratory Contact Person: Prof H. Dhadwal Location: Room 136, Light Engineering This laboratory is equipped to perform research in the broad area of fiber optic sensors. Some of the current research projects include development fiber optics systems for a micro-gravity environment, fiber optic multiplexers for a multi-sensor environment, coherent optical processors for improving resolution of diffraction limited images. Fiber optic sensors for biomedical diagnostic instrumentation and integrated fiber optics. Top
Contact Person: Prof. G. Gindi Location: Room 060 T-8 Health Sciences Center The laboratory conducts research into medical image reconstruction and analysis,with a focus on emission tomography and Advanced IC Design and Simulation Laboratory Contact Person: Prof Adrian Leuciuc, Location: Room 258A, Light Engineering This laboratory contains equipment and computing facilities for the design, simulation, and characterization of analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The lab is equiped with several SUN workstations and PC's, andasserted electronic measurement equipment. Contact Person: Profs. S. Luryi, G. Belenky Location: Room 181 Light Engineering Characterization of semiconductor devices and wafers (transistors, diodes, photodetectors, light emitting diodes and lasers). - Measurements of the devices current-voltage and current-output optical power characteristics within the temperature range 4.2-400K under CW and Pulse excitation. - Spectral characterization of light emitting devices within range of wavelength 0.5um-5um, within tempaterature range 4.2K-300K under Pulse and CW optical and electrical excitation. Contact Person: Prof. S. Luryi This laboratory is involved in the design, development, implementation and testing of various DNA sequencing instruments. Research areas include laser induced fluorescence detection, single photon counting techniques, fast data acquisition and tran sfer, design and development of analog and digital integrated circuits, signal processing, capillary electrophoresis phenomena and DNA sequencing. High Performance Computing and Networking Research Laboratory Contact Person: Prof. Y. Yang This laboratory is equiped to conduct experimental research in the broad areas of networking with emphasis on collective communications. The laboratory has 1 SUN Ultra workstation with dual processors and 4 Sun Ultra 5 workstations. All machines ar e networked and running UNIX operating systems. Optical Signal Processing and Fiber Optic Sensors Laboratory Contact Person: Prof. H. Dhadwal This laboratory is equiped to perform research in the broad area of optoelectronics. Some of the current research projects include development of fiber optic systems for real time process control in adverse environments, integrated fiber optics, fi ber optic sensors and coherent optical processing. Parallel and Neural Processing Laboratory Contact Person: Prof. W. Tang This laboratory conducts research in various parallel and neural network applications. Current research projects include Natural Adaptic Critic control, patten recognitions and Bayesian Neural Networks. It is equiped with Pentium PCs and Synapes3 p arallel neural network processing boards. Contact Person: Prof. M. Dorojevets This laboratory is a research facility equiped with two SUN workstations, several PC's with Linux, and a 16-process Beowulf-type cluster. All computers are connected by Fast 100 Mb/sec Ethernet LAN. Wireless and Networking Systems Laboratory (WINS) Contact Person: Prof. Xin Wang Location : Room 141, Heavy Engineering This lab conducts research in three major areas: wireless communications and networking, mobile computing, as well as networked sensing, detection and fusion. The current research topics of the lab can be found from the group website. This lab has about 550 square feet space in the recently renovated Heavy Engineering building. The lab has 13 Pentium Dell workstations, a set of crossbow sensors, professional sensor testbed development kit, and other equipments for networking and system researches. |
