AMPIC Lab

The AMPIC laboratory is fully equipped with all of the facilities needed for the proposed work. The lab resources include state-of-the-art equipment for experimental characterization, hardware prototyping, hot-air rework station, chip handling and packaging tools, and supplies of active and passive components. The lab constitutes a custom built optical die probing station, and a microwave probe station with 50GHz VNA. The probe stations are equipped a full-set of RF and DC probes, cabling and manipulators for electrical testing of RF-photonic devices and circuit structures. PI’s lab also two wire-bonders for chip packaging. Of particular relevance to this proposal are the PI’s capabilities for (i) RF photonic integrated circuit design, simulation and tape-out, (ii) hardware prototyping, test and measurement of the fabricated chips.

Computing Cluster

The NeuBiT lab at IRIC has a Linux server cluster with two Dell T730 PowerEdge servers and Nvidia Titan XP GPUs to support computing necessary for circuit simulations and training of machine learning algorithms. The server cluster provides remote access to CAD tools such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsis, etc., required for RF photonic circuit design, simulation and layout.