Laboratories

The department has the following laboratories in the Engineering Building, on campus:

• Signal Processing Lab
• Communications Lab
• Computer Systems Lab
• Unix Lab
• PC Lab
• Image and Speech Processing Lab
• Microwave Lab
• Data Communications Lab

PC Laboratory	Telecommunications Laboratory
Computer Systems Laboratory

Equipment

The labs are equipped by general equipment used in any electrical engineering course such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, power supplies etc.

The Department also has a PC lab equipped by 16 powerful PC's (Pentium 166MHz) for programming, simulation work and other general purpose use running in a Windows NT and Linux environments. There several other machines from Pentiums to 286's which are used for research work.

It has also at its disposal a number of powerful SUN workstations for programming, modelling and simulations. These include a Sparc 20 with five processors.

"Feedback" equipment is available for work in analogue and digital communications.

A 2GHz RF generator and a 22.5 GHz Spectrum Anaylser are used for RF design.

A number of 8086 microprocessor boards and 8051 microprocontrollers boards are available for microprocessor systems development.

In addition, the Department has In Circuit Emulators (ICE) for the 80386DX and the 8051 familiy of microcontrollers.

Recently the Department has updated its software capability. There are available a number of DSP packages including hyperception. Computer Network simulation package COMNET; communications design and simulartion packages from Cadence BONES and SPW; Matlab and toolboxes on UNIX; Entropic HTK and ESPS for speech analysis.

A satellite receiver system has also been recently installed to enable real time multimedia research in the area of coding and transmission.