The advanced and high-speed test equipment of the RFICS lab have operating frequency ranges varying from 20GHz to 50GHz. These equipment include Probe Station, Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Signal Generator, Noise Figure Analyzer, Semiconductor Device Analyzer and Waveform Generator.

The professional IC design and characterization software of the RFICS lab include Cadence, Synopsys, ADS and Silvaco.

The computer facilities of the RFICS lab include 10 Linux server and workstations to manage CAD tools and Process Design Kits as well as a Windows PC station to control the test equipment and to help students with their post data processing, thesis write-up and data backup. All computers are networked together in the ICS domain of the San Jose state university.

Students research in the RFICS lab involves design of low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, phased locked loops, planar antennas and filters, automatic gain control amplifiers, transimpedance amplifiers and pipeline, folding-interpolating and sigma-delta analog to digital converters using CMOS and BiCMOS technologies.

Pallavi and Vijayandra are measuring test structures for high frequency modeling and noise characterization.