The Integrated Circuits and System Laboratory (ICSL), directed by BEST member Mehdi Kiani, is equipped with state-of-the-art circuit design, assembly, and system design and integration resources. ICSL is also well equipped with advanced electronic measurement tools for prototype testing, and has excellent computing facilities, most of which equipped with National Instruments data acquisition and high-speed digital I/O hardware and LabVIEW instrumentation control software. Basic prototyping equipment such as soldering station, printed circuit board (PCB) design and processing tools, microcontroller programmers, and electronic components are provided. ICSL is also supported by the Electrical Engineering Department with circuit and electromagnetic software such as ADS, Cadence, and HFSS, which will be used for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design in CMOS technology. The major equipment in ICSL includes:

• 3 Hz-to-8.4 GHz signal analyzer, Agilent N9030A (1 unit)
• 100 kHz-to-8.5 GHz network analyzer, Agilent E5071C (1 unit)
• 4-channel 8 GHz oscilloscope, Agilent DSOS804A (1 unit)
• 10 GHz active probe, Agilent 1168A (1 unit)
• Phase noise and noise figure measurement setups (1 unit)
• 500 MHz multichannel oscilloscopes from Agilent up to 5 Giga sample/sec (5 units)
• Function generators covering any arbitrary waveform from 1 mHz up to 80 MHz (3 units)
• Precision power supplies and meters (5 units)
• 3-axis translation stage (NRT-100, Thorlabs, Newton, NJ) with 50 μm spatial resolution
• HGL0085 hydrophone (Onda, Sunnyvale, CA) with 85 μm aperture size and 0.25-40 MHz bandwidth