Equipment
Measurement equipment for serious hardware validation
Our lab covers signal and spectrum analysis, vector network measurements, RF generation, prototyping, thermal inspection and FPGA platform bring-up.
Software
Engineering software and toolchains
Software used for algorithm development, electronic design, FPGA implementation and mechanical integration.
Numerical & signal processing
MathWorks MATLAB with Signal Processing Toolbox
GNU Octave
Electronic & PCB design
Altium Designer — three licensed seats
KiCad
FPGA development
Intel Quartus Pro
Efinix Efinity
Microchip Libero
AMD Vivado
Mechanical CAD
Autodesk Fusion 360
LibreCAD
RF instruments
Spectrum, network and signal generation
A mix of modern and proven RF instruments used for hardware bring-up, characterization and validation.
Rohde & Schwarz FSU
Signal analyzer, 20 Hz to 8 GHz. 8 GHz preamplifier, phase-noise and noise-figure measurements.
Keysight N9020A X-Series MXA
Signal analyzer, 10 Hz to 26.5 GHz. 2 GB capture memory, preamplifier and fast sweep.
Agilent N9020A MXA
Signal analyzer, 10 Hz to 26.5 GHz. Phase-noise measurements, noise figure and EMC pre-tests.
Copper Mountain Planar 804/1
2-port vector network analyzer covering 100 kHz to 8 GHz.
Anritsu MS4622B
3-port vector network analyzer covering 10 MHz to 3 GHz.
Rohde & Schwarz SMIQ06L
Vector signal generator covering 300 kHz to 6.4 GHz.
Additional RF equipment
Additional analyzers and signal generators
Additional instruments are available for project-specific RF development and measurement.
Spectrum analyzers
Anritsu MS2719B · Agilent 8563EC · Agilent 8562EC
Signal generators
Rohde & Schwarz SMGU · Rohde & Schwarz SMHU
Hardware instruments
Prototype assembly and bench validation
Equipment for electronic prototyping, rework, thermal inspection, mixed-signal debugging and system bring-up.
Electronic prototyping and assembly
Multiple JBC soldering stations and hot-air rework, reflow oven, manual SMD stencil printer, laboratory power supplies and manual pick-and-place equipment.
Measurement and hardware validation
FLIR thermal camera, LCR meter, digital multimeters, 350 MHz, 100 MHz and 500 MHz oscilloscopes, plus high-performance workstations with NVIDIA GPUs and PCIe slots for FPGA accelerator development.
Evaluation boards
FPGA, ADC and DAC development platforms
Evaluation hardware used for feasibility work, proof-of-concept development and interface validation.
FPGA development platforms
Altera Audio Video Development Kit Stratix IV GX Edition
Altera Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit
Terasic / Arrow SoCKit Cyclone V SoC
Terasic DE10 Nano SoC
Terasic DE0 Nano SoC
Future Avalanche Board with Microchip PolarFire MPF300TS FPGA
High-speed data-converter platforms
Texas Instruments TWS1400 High Speed Data Capture and Pattern Generation Platform
TI ADS54RF63EVM ADC evaluation board, 550 Msps
TI DAC34H84EVM RF sampling ADC/DAC evaluation board
Supporting evaluation hardware
Additional jitter cleaners, Analog Devices DDS boards, power supplies, interface boards and other development hardware.