RF and Wireless Laboratory

About this Lab

The RF laboratory was established in the year 2017 to impart next-generation communication skill development for UG and PG students in Communication Engineering. It has licensed 40 User modern system simulation and co-simulation tools which include the AWR Design Environment, Microwave Office, Axiem, Analyst and Visual System Simulator. This laboratory received AICTE MODROB scheme Grant Rs 12, 43,000/- for the establishment of MIMO software-defined radio, which caters to the fundamental and advanced lab courses in software-defined radio for UG and PG students. This also has the RF test and measurement facility with Tektronix Vector Signal Generator (up to 4 GHz), Tektronix Spectrum Analyzer (9 kHz-6.2 GHz) and EMC E & H Field Probes for Radiated emission testing. This lab also caters to the skill development in LabVIEW with communication systems design suite, Open Source Tools like NS2 and Cisco Packet Tracer.

Microprocessor Laboratory

About this Lab

The Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory helps the students to understand the basic operation of Microprocessors and Microcontrollers along with fundamental programming skills in assembly language and Embedded C programming. This Laboratory creates the foundation for designing, analyzing, and implementing engineering solutions. The lab has been established to provide training to students and Academic professionals in the area of embedded systems. This lab gives insight for the students to take up internships, minor-project and major-project in Embedded System.

VLSI Design Laboratory

About this Lab

The VLSI Design Lab was established in the year 2004 as an integral part of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. The objective of the Lab is to produce trained professionals for the industry and to achieve excellence in research using the latest technology with innovative ideas. Ever since its inception, the VLSI Lab has constantly been upgraded to match the latest technologies of the modern era. The VLSI Lab is equipped with the industry-standard VLSI EDA tools including Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics (Tanner), Vivado, and hardware resources including Virtex-5 open sparc EP, Virtex-5 Genesys, Virtex 4, XUP Virtex II Pro, University Trainer Kits, Basys-3, ZYBO - ZYnq and Nexys-4 Video FPGA Kits. The undergraduates, postgraduates, Ph.D. Scholars and faculty members are utilizing this lab for regular lab sessions, project works, research, and consultancy. The research works include designing of ADCs and other RF circuits for Bio-medical and Wireless Communications, design of different memory structures for various applications, design of VLSI architectures for motion estimation, and modeling of high power devices. The outcome of the research work includes products, patents, projects, and publications in high reputed journals.

Integrated Circuits Laboratory

About this Lab

A comprehensive undergraduate engineering program must provide opportunities for the application of theoretical concepts to the solution of realistic engineering problems. The Linear Integrated Circuits Lab introduces the concept and application of operational amplifiers. Laboratory assignments clarify textbook formulas and examples, as well as help to close the gap between theory and real-life problems. The Digital Logic Lab is where the students gain practical experience in the use of basic hardware components. Through experiments, students become familiar with gates, multiplexers, decoders, flip-flops, counters, registers and displays.

Microwave and Optical Fiber Laboratory

About this Lab

The Microwave and Optical Fiber Laboratory in the department paves way as a platform for Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology students and Research scholars to explore and enhance their skills in the field of Microwave Communication. This Laboratory consists of various microwave benches with Klystron and Gunn diode as microwave sources operating in X, J, K & C bands. This lab also includes experiments related to high speed optical communication for different optical sources (LED, LD) with 600nm, 880nm, 1510nm, 1530nm, 1550nm, 1570nm. The Optical experiments (EDFA, WDM, OTDR, Multiplexing & Demultiplexing can be performed using Light Runner Trainer.

Thrust Areas: Microwave Components & Antennas for wireless applications, 5G & beyond communication technologies

Signal Processing Laboratory

About this Lab

The laboratory was established in the year 2012, which occupies around 936 square feet area with very good infrastructure. In theoretical and practical aspects, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is concerned of representing information bearing signals in digital form, and with using computers or special purpose digital hardware (like DSP processors) either to extract that information or to transform the signals in useful ways. The Signal Processing laboratory, part of ECE, at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences (Deemed to be University) is at the forefront of research and academic. The laboratory boasts excellent modern computer facilities for research and education; DSP processors and its IDE.

Thrust Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Signal Processing, Image and video processing, Bio-medical signal processing, Audio signal processing, Signal processing for communications, Soft computing and data analysis, Speech and information processing, Natural Language Processing and DSP algorithm development.

Electronics Laboratory

About this Lab

The core Electronics lab provides the foundation for electronics engineering. This laboratory aims at providing students the knowledge about various electronic devices. Students are made familiar with electronic circuits and their intended use in various applications. This laboratory is primarily aimed to meet the requirements of practical work meant for active components analysis, designing and testing of amplifier, filters and oscillators. All basic electronic devices and their characteristics, applications can be studied. Using these devices, the simple analog circuits and mini projects can be constructed and tested.

Communication Laboratory

About this Lab

The Communication Laboratory was established in the year 1987. The Communication Laboratory is equipped with a wide range of experimental facilities. It enables the students to gain a deep insight into the design and working of various analog and digital modulations. The experiments are designed to complement and reinforce the lecture material throughout the semester.