Equipment

Opto Lab

• Infrastructure for the temporal, spectral characterization of opto-electronic components
• Tunable CW laser at 1550 nm
• fs/ps-pulsed TiSa-laser system with OPA at 1300 and 1550 nm
• ps-pulsed dye-laser, YAG-pumped
• optical samplers

High Speed Lab

• 20 Gbit/s electrical and optical Bit Error Measurement Tester
• 40 GHz Network Analyzer
• On-Wafer Probing up to 50 GHz
• 50 GHz Frequency Synthesizer and Samplers

Computer and Vision Lab

• Logic Analyzers
• Counters
• Pulse Generators
• Vision calibration table MCM Lab
• Tester 330 MHz, 256 pins
• MCM Prober station
• Transmission line characterization up to 20 GHz

Computer Equipment

Sun Sparc Fire 280R (2 CPU) Sun Sparc Fire V440 (4 CPU) Sun Sparc Enterprise 220R (2 CPU) Sun x86 Fire V40z (4 CPU) Sun x86 Fire V60x (4 CPU) Sun Sparc Blade 1500 Sun Sparc Ultra 60 Sun Sparc Ultra 30 Sun Sparc Ultra 10 SGI Origin 2000 (8 CPU) HP 9000/725 UNIX machines

2 1 1 2 4 21 1 8 13 1 1 55

Besides the UNIX computers, PCs under Linux, MacIntoshes and PCs under variouos Micro$oft OSs are widely used.

Dedicated Software Packages

Harris_EDA	MCM design tools
Khoros	Image processing software
frame5	FrameMaker
hfds-6.0	High frequency design system
hfss	High frequency structure simulation
jdk 1.1.1	Java Developers Tool kit
maxplus7	Max Plus II Altera FPGA design tools
mds	Microwave design system
powerview	Xilinx FPGA tools
pspice-7.1	Spice circuit simulator
quad	Transmission line simulation
savantage	System design adviser
sonnet	Electromagnetic simulator
hicross	Cross-compiler for MC68332
DSPs	Software development tools for TMS320C80, ADSP21k SHARC, Motorola 56002
Maintained by the Design Center:
Synopsys	VLSI design tools
Cadence	PCB and VLSI design tools