Research Laboratories
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).
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.
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Communications and Signal Processing Simulation Facility
Contact Person: Prof. Petar Djuric, Prof. Stephen Rappaport
Location: Room 256, Light Engineering
Usage : ESE 337,340,341,342,346,347,358,440,441,499
This laboratory was established to service communications and signal processing course offerings, individual projects and research activities at the undergraduate level. The facility is equipped with networked workstations and X-terminals. Specialized software packages include SIMSCRIPT, COMNET and MATLAB.The laboratory is available on a walk-in basis to undergraduate students enrolled in communications and signal processing courses and/or projects.
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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.
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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.
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Communications, Signal Processing and Networking Laboratory (CSPV)
Location: Light Engineering Rooms 202 & 204
Communications, Signal Processing and Networking Laboratory (CSPV)
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Medical Image Processing Laboratory
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 magnetic resonance imaging. Problems of interest include Bayesian image reconstruction, noise propagation in nonlinear algorithms, and image segmentation. Equipment includes Dec-Alpha 250, Sparc-10, Sparc-2, Sparc-LX workstations, plus numerous PC's and MACs.
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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.
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Mobile Systems Design Laboratory (MSDL)
Mobile Systems Design Laboratory (MSDL)
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Web and Internet Technology Lab
Location : Light Engineering Rooms 248
COMPUTER VISION LABORATORY (CVL)
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VLSI Systems Design Laboratory
Mixed-Domain Embedded Systems Laboratory
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Integrated Microsystems Design Laboratory
Location : Lab Light Engineering 258
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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.
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