ASIC Testing Laboratory The ASIC Testing Laboratory (ATL) (operated jointly with the Department of Computer Engineering) supports research conducted by graduate students from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Departments. Computer-aided testing packages from industry and the public domain are used in such projects as fault analysis on the device level, functional testability measures, partitioning HDL models for testability, and rapid prototyping using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
	Communications and Microwave Laboratory The Communications and Microwave Laboratory provides a full range of modern measurement capability from 0-22 GHz, including a number of automatic network analyzers and modern spectrum analyzers. It also has extensive computer-aided design and simulation capability, based largely on modern commercial software running on workstations. Interconnection of hardware measurements and computer simulation is stressed.
	Digital Systems Laboratory The Digital Systems Laboratory (operated jointly with the Computer Engineering Department) provides complete facilities for experiments and projects ranging in complexity from a few digital integrated circuits and other electronic components to complete computer systems. It includes a variety of development systems to support microprocessor-based design, VLSI design, and other computer design projects. It also holds facilities to support digital signal processing projects.
	Electron Devices Laboratory The Electron Devices Laboratory is dedicated to teaching and research topics on electronic devices, materials and their manufacturing technologies. The Laboratory has a class-100, clean-room facility which provides hands-on experience of fabrication and characterization of basic electronic devices. Current research topics include Impact of Process Variations on the Analysis and Optimization of VLSI Circuits, and Modeling MOS Devices including Quantum Mechanical Interface Charge Distribution Effects.
	Image Processing Laboratory The Image Processing Laboratory is used primarily for graduate research. It is equipped with networked workstations and multimedia PCs. Research areas include theoretical issues in image processing, image analysis, and three-dimensional modeling from two-dimensional data. Applications include medical image analysis, two- and three-dimensional image reconstruction, and passive navigation for robotic vision.
	Intelligent Control Laboratory The Intelligent Control Laboratory provides an experimental environment for students in the area of control and system engineering. It includes a computer-controlled IBM robotic arm system, several servo-experimenters, and a torsional mechanical control system. The equipment provides students with a wide range of qualitative and quantitative experiments for learning the utility and versatility of feedback in computer-controlled systems.
	Multimedia Education Laboratory The Multimedia Education Laboratory (operated jointly with the Department of Computer Engineering) is dedicated to the development and delivery of multimedia educational resources and to the development of tools to create and present these resources. The laboratory is equipped with eight Unix workstations.
	Nanoelectronics Laboratory The Nanoelectronics Laboratory provides teaching and research facilities for modeling, simulation, and characterization of semiconductor devices in the nanoscale. Ongoing research topics include silicon heterostructures, thin dielectrics, high-frequency device and circuit parameter extraction, compact modeling of transistors and interconnects for large-scale circuit simulation, spintronics, and carbon nanotubes.
	Signal Processing Laboratory The Signal Processing Laboratory is used primarily for graduate research. It is equipped with networked workstations, multimedia PCs, and real-time DSP systems. Research areas include adaptive signal processing, artificial neural networks, speech processing, and nonlinear signal processing. Applications include VLSI implementations of adaptive signal processing.
	Storage Technology Laboratory The Storage Technology Laboratory is used primarily for graduate research, although senior projects are encouraged and supported. The laboratory is orienting its activities towards storage interfaces and networked storage systems. Symposia and workshops on information storage technology are undertaken for the general benefit of the storage industry.