The Centre is housed in a suite of recently refurbished laboratories in the Richmond building at the University of Sussex. Our laboratories include a vast array of equipment and facilities outlined below.
Test and measurement
- Instrumentation capability DC to microwave frequencies
- Ocsilloscopes
- Function generators
- Arbitary function generators
- Power supplies
- Spectrum analysers
- Dynamic signal analysers
- Vector network analysers
- Multi-frequency LCR meters
- High sensitivity instrumentation
- Dielectric analysers
- Insulation testers
- Bespoke instruments
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National Instruments hardware and software
- PXI and PXIe platforms
- Data acquisiton (DAQ)
- LabVIEW virtual lab programming
- GPIB and instrument control
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Communications and network development tools
- Mobile and wireless development platforms
- Wireless sensor network nodes and gateways
- TI digital signal processing kits and video platforms
- Integrated software development environments
- High performance computer cluster
- Modelling and simulation tools
- MATLAB communications tool boxes
- Network simulation tools (OPNET, NS3)
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Prototyping & fabrication
- Circuit simulation software using NI Multisim
- PCB design software using NI Ultiboard and EasyPC
- PCB prototyping
- Surface mount fabrication equipment
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Environments
- Low noise shielded rooms
- Magnetically screened enclosures
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Materials and workshop facilities
- Mechanical workshop access
- Materials polishing and coating
- Coil winding
- High temperature furnace
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Clean room & microelectronics
- Clean room
- Metal deposition and processing equipment
- Electron beam lithography
- Scanning electron microscopes
- Optical microscopes
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