National Microelectronics and Photonics Testing Collaboratory:

• Four Laboratories will make modern test and measurement instrumentation available to researchers at the host site and other Canadian universities via the Internet.

• Both on-site and remote access will be provided

• Each laboratory will have full-time technical support; education/training, maintenance/calibration, scheduling, etc.

• Collaboratory funded by Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

Four Advanced Test Laboratories:

Digital SoC (Toronto) 

• PI: Glenn Gulak

• 496 channels @ 600-1250 MHz

• 3 channels RF @ 7.5 GHz (modulated)

• Digital virtual Test via Emulation

• 20 GS/s digital storage scope

Photonics (Queen's)

• PI: John Cartledge

• Device testing for E/O, O/O  and O/E

• Signal characterization (electrical and optical)

• System characterization 10-160 Gb/s  

• Multi-channel, multi-span transmission

Mixed Signal (McGill)

• PI: Gord Roberts

• 64 CH digital @ 100 MHz

• 24 bit analog I/O

• 16 bit high speed analog

• RF to 3 GHz
  High power pulse

RF (mm-wave) (Manitoba)

• PI: Greg Bridges

• Fully automatic wafer prober

• Signal characterization to 110 GHz

• Signal generation to 110 GHz

• Noise figure analysis

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Collaboratory Operation:

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