Laboratories

Digital and Analog Communications (CAD) Laboratory

Equipment:

– 20 Lab-Volt working platforms with transmission modules

– 20 sets of signal generators + digital Tektronix TDS2002 oscilloscopes + multimeters + laptops + printers

– TechLab client-server application (real-time online laboratories)

Representative practical work themes:

– AM, FM, PM analog modulations

– PAM, PCM, Delta digital modulations

– Performance tests

– ASK, PSK, FSK digital modulations

– BB, NRZ, Manchester codes

– Fiber-optic transmission systems

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Digital Signal Processing (PDS) Laboratory

Equipment:

– 15 Pentium Core 2 Duo computers

– 6 Texas Instruments TMS320C31DSK development kits

Representative practical work themes:

– Introduction to MATLAB

– Discrete signals and systems

– Digital filters with finite impulse response

– Digital filters with infinite impulse response

– Digital filter structures

– Multirate systems

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Mobile Communications Laboratory (Orange)

Equipment:

– GSM access system (OMC, BSC, 2 micro-BTS, 3 mobile phones, interconnected with university centers from Cluj and Timişoara)

– measuring system for GSM CMU50 (Rhode & Schwarz) terminal equipments

– 7 Athlon64 3200 computers

Representative practical work themes:

– Radio wave propagation

– Signal processing in GSM systems

– Performance evaluation for GSM networks

– Dynamic channel allocation in mobile communication systems

– Performance evaluation for algorithms

– GSM signaling protocols

– Configuration of BTS, BSC and OMC-R systems

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Signal Processors for Communications (PSC) Laboratory

Equipment:

– 10 Pentium 4 computers

– 6 Freescale DSP SC140 development kits

– 6 Freescale DSP56300 development kits

Representative practical work themes:

– Programming in DSP assembly language

– Real-time application development on evaluation modules

– Real-time sinusoidal signal generation

– Real-time digital filter implementation

– Fourier transform algorithm implementation on signal processors

– Presentation of CodeWarrior environment. Programming examples using C language for StarCore140

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Communication Architectures, Protocols, Services, Networks Laboratory

Equipment:

– 12 Cisco routers from 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800 families

– 7 Switches + routers: Huawei S2300, S3300, S5300

– Huawei equipments MA5600+OLT, MA5652+VDSL, DSL access terminals, telephones

– 12 quad-core PCs

Representative practical work themes:

– Network services and interface configuration under Linux: addressing, ARP, DNS, DHCP, routing; traffic generation and analysis, protocol analysis: iperf, tcpdump, etc

– Network services configuration on Cisco routers: static routing; dinamic routing – RIP, OSPF; inter-AS routing – BGP; dynamic IPv4 addressing (DHCP, NAT); IPv6 addressing, tunneling; QoS

– L2 network configuration (switching) + L3 on Huawei equipment

– Fiber-optics access equipment configuration + VDSL

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Services and Applications for Mobile Internet Laboratory (SAIM)

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Microwave Circuits and Transmission Mediums Laboratory

Equipment:

– 2 Agilent E5071C 8,5GHz network vectorial analyzers

– Anritsu MS2717B 9kHz-7,1GHz spectrum analyzer

– Agilent MXG N5181A 100kHz-3GHz  analog signal generator

– Agilent MXG N5183A 100kHz-20GHz analog signal generator

– 2 Agilent 53181A 12,4GHz frequency counters

– 2 Agilent E4418B multimeters

– 2 Agilent E9301H -50dBm,+30dBm power sensors

– Instek GVT417B milivolt meter

– Bull server

– A network with 4 Intel Core2Duo computers for simulations

– Software: Advanced Design Software 2008, Sonnet Professional 11

Representative practical work themes:

– The study of signals’ amplitude distribution with the line measurement

– Frequency and wavelength measurement

– Stationary wave ratio measurement

– Normalised impedance measurement

– The study of simple adaptation circuits through circuit simulation

– The study of adaptation circuits for complex loads

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Wireless Technologies Laboratory

Equipment:

3 WiMAX 802.16 Redline AN-50 Base Stations

DVB-T Streamtel modulator-emitter

DVB-T Ipricot receiver

Access Point WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n equipments

PCs 802.11 NICs

Representative practical work themes:

Configurations and measurements for 802.11 (WiFi) and 802.16 (WiMAX) networks

DVB-T experiments

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Antennas, Propagation, Radar Laboratory

Equipment:

– Signal generator

– Specrum analyzer

– Vectorial analyzer for networks

– Oscilloscope

– Gap antennas

– FPGA based platforms 2005

– PCs

Representative practical work themes:

– Fundamental parameters of antennas

– Directivity diagram measurement

– Directivity characteristic applications

– Longwire antennas, Systems of longwire antennas

– Discovery radar, impulse compression, mobile targets selection system, Doppler radar

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Atmel  Microcontrollers (2^nd, 3^rd Project) Laboratory

Equipment:

– 12 working platforms with: copper bit, double power source, Tektronix 2500 oscilloscope, computer

– other equipment: signal generators, multimeter

– other tools: pincers, tweezers, etc

Representative practical work themes:

– Applications using Atmel AVR microcontrollers

(all components are available for free)

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Advanced Multimedia Laboratory

Equipment:

– 12 PC (4 XEON +8 Core2 Duo)

– 2 DVB-T/H modulators

– DTA 107 DVB-S modulator with up-converter(QPSK)

– Multistandard DVB S/T/H modulator with DTA 115 converter (QAM, OFDM)

– DVB Thales multiplexer

– 2 satellite reception antennas (1 fixed + 1 mobile)

– 4 DVB-S receivers

– 2 Hitachi P50T01 plasma TVs

– IP STB (Amino) Standard Definition and High Definition

– 2 MPEG-4-MPEG-2 Neotion video transcoders

– Sony DVI E100P video camera

– DVB Gateway DTA 160 IP/

– DVB-ASI I/O DTA 140 (4)

– ASI/SDI Adapter DTA 145

– Quad ASI/SDI Input Adapter

Representative practical work themes:

– Speech compression

– Wide-band audio signals compression

– Multichannel codecs and audio formats

– JPEG şi JPEG2000 compressions

– Moving image compression. Movement estimation

– MPEG2, H261, H263 video compressions