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The Department has well-equipped instructional and research laboratories for electronic circuits, digital circuits, solid-state electronics, thin-film device development, biomedical electronics, communications, microwave techniques, real-time control systems, holography and coherent light optics, biological control systems, digital systems design, computer vision and robotics.

The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing in ECE has a network of two dozen Sun Solaris UNIX workstations, three fileservers, a 16 processor IBM SP-2 distributed memory message-passing multicomputer, an 8-processor IBM J-30 shared memory multiprocessor, an 8-processor SGI Origin 2000 distributed shared memory multiprocessor, and several personal computers.

The Department's Wilkinson Cluster Computing Laboratory has a large number of interconnected computers, including a 28 Sun Solaris UNIX workstations and 16 Windows PCs. There are a variety of graphics, CAD, circuit design/simulation, database and other software packages on these machines.

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• ECE Conference Room

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