Images from several research laboratories in EECS
Development of the
MIT Raw chip in Professor Anant Agrawal's lab. Raw is a wire-efficient
tiled parallel processing architecture with a compiler
programmable interconnection network. The current chip is implemented
as 16-tiles on one chip, which can scale to a larger number of tiles on
future chips. The interconnection network extends off-chip, allowing large
fabrics of Raw chips to be built.
Image 1 (below, left) shows a 1020-node microphone array (the world's
largest) attached
to Raw for acoustic beamforming. Image 2 (below, center) shows a 802.11a
wireless front-end connected to the Raw board. Image 3 (below, right)
shows a 16-tile Raw chip on a motherboard with interface FPGAs* and memory.
FPGA denotes Field Programmable Gate Array, a hardware chip that can be
reprogrammed with different internal hardware configurations. For more
information visit: http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/raw
Work carried out by
some of the graduate students of Professor Anantha Chandrakasan on UWB
(ultra wideband) technologies. Upper left and center (images 1 and 2)
, David Wentzloff and Fred Lee are working on the UWB Project measuring
base and ultra wideband tranceiver chips and amplifiers. On lower right
(image 3) Ben Calhoun tests a digital subthreshold chip operating at 150
mV. At lower left and right (images 4 and 5), Johnna Powell works on a
UWB dicreet system. For further information on UWB visit: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/research/icsystems/uwb/
Pre-launch
testing of the newly developed 6.111
lab kit images (immediately below) in the Chandrakasan lab by
graduate student Nathan Ickes.
Cartilage tissue engineering in the lab of Prof. Alan Grodzinsky. Christina Cosman (lower left) performing "delicate" dissection of cartilage cells from bovine knee joint. John Kisiday (lower right) places living cells into a peptide gel scaffold for applications in cartilage tissue engineering. For more information see: http://web.mit.edu/cbe/www/thrust.html
Research in the Laboratory of Prof. Alan Oppenheim. The circuit and enlarged scope trace (image 2 below right) is a transmitter and receiver for a new Frequency Modulation system exploiting nonlinear dynamics and the Lorenz attractor. The circuit was built by Wade Torres. Graduate student Petros Boufounos is seen in image 2 (below left) working on the system. Greg Hren photography/Research Laboratory of Electronics. For more information go to: http://www.rle.mit.edu/dspg
