Laboratory Facilities @ Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Signal Processing Lab

Digital Signal processing (DSP) lab caters to the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Electronics and Communication engineering.  They offer students powerful techniques and tools to apply, synthesize, design, simulate and implement state-of-the-art solutions to modern engineering problems. Experimental activities cover fundamental concepts of digital signal processing such as sampling and aliasing, quantization, digital filter design and implementation. The lab provides hands-on experience in a way that integrates theory, software, hardware and applications. The lab is equipped with DSP trainer kits- TMS320C50 Based DSP Starter trainer kit, TMS320C6711 with CCS DSP Starter Kit, Hyper Signal DSP based on TMS320C30, TMS 320C50 based Evaluation board, MATLAB Software with all major toolboxes.  To enable hardware synthesis of DSP algorithms, tools like VIVADO System Edition and Xilinx Development Kit ATLYS – Spartan 6 [FPGA development kit], ANVYL – Spartan 6[FPGA Board] are recent additions in the DSP lab.

Some of the major research areas in the lab include

1. Speech Processing
2. Speaker Identification
3. VLSI Signal Processing
4. Disease Classification using Wavelet based algorithms
5. Image Processing
6. Bio Signal Processing
7. Non Destructive Testing
8. Wavelet based System development for Wireless Communication
    

Radio Frequency Lab

The Radio Frequency (RF) lab emphasizes the electromagnetic applications in communication engineering. The lab is equipped with X band Microwave benches, Antennas, Signal generators like Klystron and Gunn diodes. The necessary Electromagnetic simulation tools are also available for practical and projects.

Some of the major research areas in the lab includes:

1. Electromagnetic properties of Materials
2. Microwave Absorbers
3. Microstrip antennas and devices

Communication Systems Lab

Communication lab provides design and evaluation environment for the study of communication systems.  The lab has facilities for designing hardware using discrete components and ICs, software. For the complete circuit analysis covering the temporal and spectral characteristics of the signal, measuring instruments like the Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO) and Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO) provide the necessary platform. In addition to this, the lab contains 0.5 t0 500 MHz Spectrum Analyzer with built in tracking generator, Digital multimeters. The lab is equipped with computing facilities which is used to expose the students to apply probability and random process theory to communication systems.

Some of the major research areas in the lab includes:

1. Channel Estimation for Wireless Communication Systems
2.  Channel Coding
3. Multicarrier Communication
4. Signal Processing for MIMO baseband.