The Research Professionals maintain shared infrastructure, including fabrication facilities, wireless and optical transmission testbeds, and high-performance computing clusters. They provide performance data and operational feedback, enabling iterative refinement of research outputs. They participate in HQP training and act as intermediaries with industrial partners.New STARaCom supported infrastructure includes:
i) the Quantum and Artificial Intelligence Light Infrastructure for Tomorrow's sYstems [QUALITY] laboratory;
ii) the Research Laboratory to Develop and Assess Smart Process Applications; and
iii) the Optical Fiber Transmission Systems test bed.
The existing common infrastructure is as follows:
i) Concordia: Software and hardware for mobile network design and analysis, compute networks, and software development;
ii) ÉTS: Low temperature ceramics and MEMS device fabrication for circuit, sensor and packaging applications. Wireless communications systems modeling and testing equipment;
iii) INRS: RF anechoic chamber, hybrid near/far-field antenna measurement system, and microwave and millimeter-wave measurement instruments;
iv) McGill: Optoelectronic device design toolsets. Optical fiber transmission system testbeds operating at 225 Gbaud. GPU clusters for signal processing and AIalgorithm development:
v) Poly: RF components, circuits and antenna manufacture and testing to 750 GHz. Design and testing of communication, and sensingsystems in the 50 - 75 GHz and 0.14 - 0.22 THz bands;
vi) UQAM: Software and CPU hardware for computing and sensing. Each lab is staffed by STARaCom funded Research Professionals and Technicians who schedule usage of the facility; fabricate devices and maintain software and hardware. All STARaCom Professors and their research team have priority access to STARaCom laboratories. STARaCom also supports new entrepreneurs throughits Facility Access Program for Entrepreneurs (FAPE). Applications to this program are reviewed by the Industry and End-User Partnerships portfolio and awarded as payment to the institution that performed the test/fabrication.
