Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory: Laboratory

Laboratory

Main Equipments
Miscellaneous Equipments
Software
Hardware
Library
Photo Gallery
Members Only Area
Contact Info.

Main Equipments


	E5071B RF Network Analyzer, 300 kHz to 8.5 GHz Web link

	Agilent RF signal generator, 3 GHz Web link

	Agilent 4-channel 100 MHz Oscilloscope Web link

	Agilent 34-Channel 150 MHz State, 500 MHz Timing Benchtop Logic Analyzer Web link

	Agilent Vector Signal Analyzer, DC to 2.65 GHz Web link

	E4407B-STD ESA-E Standard Analyzer, 9 kHz to 26.5 GHz Web link

	CompuScope 8500 500 MS/s, 8 Bit Waveform Digitizer Web link

Miscellaneous Equipments

	EPROM, Flash, PLD and Microcontroller (8051) Programmer Web link

	Atmel Development Kit for Secure Microcontrollers (AVR based) Web link

	AVR 8-Bit RISC in-circuit emulator Web link

	AVR 8-Bit RISC development tool Web link

	Bluetooth Application and Training Tool Kit Web link

	Bluetooth Starter Kit from IAR Systems Web link

	Generic Smart Card Reader

	Incircuit emulator for 8051 micro-controller (DS-51) from CEIBO Web link

	Incircuit emulator for 8051 micro-controller (EB-51) from CEIBO Web link

	Casira Bluetooth development system plus full BlueStack source code from Mezoe Web link

	FPGA and DSP development tool by MiroTech provided by Canadian Microelectronics Corporation Web link

	EZ-KIT Lite for Analog Devices ADSP-218x DSP Family Web link

	Finger print capture device Web link

	Fluke 100MHz portable scope Web link

	Development tool for National LMX316X single chip radio transceiver Web link

	Development tool for 32 bit micro-controller M-CORE by Motorola Web link

	Merlin Bluetooth protocol analyzer Web link

	Microsoft SmartCard Toolkit Web link

	MSP-430 emulator from Hitex (DProbe430-base plus DProbe430-DP100 adapter) Web link

	An older MSP-430 emulator from Hitex Web link


	Cradle for pager application development from Motorola Web link

	Development tool for power line communications from Intellon Web link

	TMS320 DSP development tool from Texas Instrument Web link

	Development tool for MSP-TRF6900 ( 902-928 MHz ISM band Transceiver from Texas Instrument) Web link

	Various generic signal generators

	Various generic power supplies

	Evaluation Kit for the MSP430 Micro-controller Family Web link

	Flash Emulation Tool for MSP-430 Micro-controller Web link

	MSP-430 Micro-controller Flash Development Tool Web link

Software

Unix-based

Windows-based

Unix-based Softwares

Name-Version	Description	Documentation
maple-5.5	The Maple symbolic algebra system version 5.5.
matlab-6.0	PRO-MATLAB V6.0 matrix laboratory. Licensed product from Mathworks. Site licensed software.
nagclib-5	NAG C Library is a collection of C functions for the solution of numerical and statistical problems.	(53 KB)
spw	Cadence® Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW)
Advanced Design System from Agilent

Windows-based Softwares

Name-Version	Description	Documentation
IAR visualSTATE	IAR visualSTATE UML-compliant graphical state machine design	(155 KB)
IAR Embedded Workbench for ATMEL AVR Micro-controller and Smartcard		(106 KB)
IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP-430 micro-controller		(114 KB)
Capture, Layout Plus, PSpice A/D and Optimizer	Circuit design tools from Cadence/Orcad
GoDsp/Texas Instrument Code Composer
Xilinx FPGA Design Tool
Microwave Office
CodeWarrior for Palm OS
CodeWarrior M-CORE Development Tools
EAGLE PCB Layout Editor	Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor for Printed Circuit Board layouts from CadSoft.
WinFing32	Fingerprint Analysis and Matching Software

Hardware


Device Type	Brand/Model	#
SUN Solaris Server	Ultra 1, 10	8
SUN Unix Workstation		4
PC Workstation	Pentium-4	25
Linux Workstation	Pentium-4	30
Laptop		12
Printer/Copier		6

Library

The lab's library has more than 500 technical books in the following areas:

Algebra	Network
Coding	Optimization
Communications	Probability
Digital Signal Processing	Programming Languages
General Engineering	Software
Information Theory

Photo Gallery

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Lab. from outside	Inside Lab.	Lab. in action
Lab.'s library	Lab.'s whiteboard	Pager
Smart Card	Another view of library	Bluetooth units and traffic analyzer
Another corner of the lab.	RF transceiver design

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Prof. Amir K. Khandani E&CE Dept. University of Waterloo 200 University Ave. West Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada See our location in Google maps

Phone:
+1 (519) 888-4567 x.5324

Fax:
+1 (519) 746-3077

Email (lab director):

khandani AT shannon DOT uwaterloo DOT ca

URL (this web site):

http://www.cst.uwaterloo.ca

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