Resources and Facilities
Our group is equipped with advanced testbeds and experimental facilities, enabling us to conduct a wide range of wireless communication experiments and to design and implement embedded Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
Spectrum Analyzer
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- USRP X310 + 2x UBX 160 USRP RF Daughterboard
- USRP X310 + TwinRX RF Daughterboard
- USRP N210 + UBX 40 USRP RF Daughterboard *4
- USRP B210 *3
- USRP B206mini
- USRP B205mini
- RFSoC 4x2 *3
- WARP v3 *3
- LimeSDR *3
- Zedboard + AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ FMC module
- bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 *2
- HackRF One *2
- antSDR*2
- PlutoSDR*4
- RTL-SDR*5
Wireless Kit
- Pycom FiPy *10 (for WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, SigFox and NB-IoT)
- Pycom LoPy4*100 (for WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, and SigFox)
- LoRa devices, including mbed LoRa sx1272, sx1261, sx1276, sx1280 (2.4 GHz LoRa), Arduino LoRa shield and Microchip RN2483 LoRa
- Nordic Semiconductor: nRF52840 Dongle, nRF52840 DK, nRF5340 DK, (for ZigBee and Bluetooth)
- Texas Instrument: CC1352P, CC2652P, CC2640R2, CC1352P1
- ESP32: ESP32 and ESP32-S3 for WiFi and Bluetooth
- Raspberry Pi-based LoRaWAN Gateway, RAK831
GPU Platform
- Work station with RTX 4090
- Work station with RTX 3060
- Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit *2
- Jetson TX2 Developer Kit *3
FPGA Platform
Single Board Computer
- Up squared board
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Intel NUC mini PC
mmWave Radar
- IWR6843AOPEVM: IWR6843AOP evaluation module for integrated antenna-on-package (AoP) intelligent mmWave sensor
- IWR6843ISK: IWR6843 evaluation module for single-chip 60GHz long-range antenna mmWave sensor.
- IWR1843BOOST: IWR1843 single-chip 76-GHz to 81-GHz industrial radar sensor evaluation module
- DCA1000EVM : Real-time data-capture adapter for radar sensing evaluation module
- MMWAVEICBOOST: mmWave sensors carrier card platform
Facilities
The High Frequency Engineering Group at University of Liverpool has an anechoic chamber and the biggest reverberation chamber in the UK universities.