The 1,400-square foot HF Lab is the cornerstone of the hardware device research under way within the Georgia Electronic Design Center. The mission of the HF Lab is to develop and combine new technologies with the help of leading-edge industry to perform research relevant to industry, provide enhanced manufactured products and new capabilities.

Essentially, the High Frequency Lab is an aggregation of related research teams working together to solve pressing next generation communications design challenges. Expertise within this lab includes semiconductor physics, fabrication, testing, device verification and circuits and module characterization. Each HF researcher addresses new challenges by generating new performance-enhancing concepts and applying them toward next generation "macro-scale items," i.e., products manufactured for consumer use.

Major capabilities of this lab include S-parameter analysis up to 110GHz, load-pull analysis up to 26GHz, noise analysis up to 26GHz and cryogenic capabilities.

Researchers in the lab develop the following technologies: System-on-a-Package, Mixed-Signal Verification, Emerging Device Technologies, Systemon- a-Chip, and MEMS and Antenna Design.