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
USRP Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
| SDR | Frequency Range | RF Bandwidth | Sample Depth | Sample Rate | Tx Channels | Rx Chnanels | Duplex | RF Chipset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USRP X310+ UBX 160 USRP RF Daughterboardx2 | 10 MHz to 6 GHz | 160 MHz | 1 | 1 | Full | UBX160 | ||
| USRP X310 + TwinRX RF Daughterboardx2 | 10 MHz to 6 GHz | 80 MHz | 100 MSPS | 0 | 2 | NA | TwinRx | |
| USRP N210 + UBX 40 USRP RF Daughterboard | 10 MHz to 6 GHz | 40 MHz | 14 bits | 1 | 1 | Full | UBX40 | |
| USRP B210 | 70 MHz to 6 GHz | 56 MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 2 | 2 | Full | AD9361 |
| USRP B205mini | 70 MHz to 6 GHz | 56 MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 1 | 1 | Full | AD9364 |
| USRP B206mini | 70 MHz to 6 GHz | 56 MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 1 | 1 | Full | AD9364 |
Please visit https://kb.ettus.com/About_USRP_Bandwidths_and_Sampling_Rates for more explanation.
Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
| SDR | Frequency Range | RF Bandwidth | Sample Depth | Sample Rate | Tx Channels | Rx Chnanels | Duplex | RF Chipset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zedboard + AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ FMC module | 47 MHz to 6 GHz | 56 MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 2 | 2 | Full | AD9361 |
| antSDR E310 | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | AD9361 | |||||
| bladeRF 2.0 micro xA9 ×2 | 47 MHz to 6 GHz | 61.44MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 2 | 2 | Full | AD9361 |
| PlutoSDR | 325 MHz to 3.8 GHz | 20 MHz | 12 bits | 61.44 MSPS | 1 | 1 | Full | AD9363 |
| HackRF One | 1 MHz to 6 GHz | 20 MHz | 8 bits | 20 MSPS | 1 | 1 | Half | MAX5864, MAX2837, RFFC5072 |
| RTL-SDR | 22 MHz to 2.2 GHz | 3.2 MHz | 8 bits | 3.2 MSPS | 0 | 1 | NA | RTL2832U |
| RFSoC 4x2 |
Wireless Kit
- Pycom FiPy ×10 (for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, SigFox and NB-IoT)
- Pycom LoPy4×100 (for Wi-Fi, 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 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Raspberry Pi-based LoRaWAN Gateway, RAK831
GPU Platform
- Workstation with RTX 4090
- Workstation with RTX 3060
- Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit ×2
- Jetson TX2 Developer Kit ×2
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
Cameras
- RealSense D455f: a depth camera that combines stereo depth sensing with an RGB camera to capture both visual and three-dimensional information about the surrounding environment. It is particularly suitable for applications such as human activity recognition, gesture recognition, object tracking, and robotics.
Facilities
The High Frequency Engineering Group at University of Liverpool has an anechoic chamber and the biggest reverberation chamber in the UK universities.