Final Product Photos

These pictures show the state of development at the end of exam week. Company B has an essentially functional product with the RF board and Digital board tested together. Company A is close with a full RF board loopback test complete, and a digital board in progress.

Jeremy tests the synthesizer on Company A's RF board. One day later, the board passed a full loop-back test using an external mixer and power combiner to translate the transmitted RF signal back down to the received frequency and back into the antenna port.

Company B's digital board, fully populated, and operational! The switch on the left is the "hook". The ICs are (clockwise from upper left), the voltage regulator, the ADPCM codec, the RX PLD, the Microcontroller, and the TX PLD.

RF, PLD, and Software teams work on final integration of the Company B digital and RF circuit boards.

Company A's RF and digital boards. The RF board has successfully passed a loop-back test. The digital board has been powered up and should be functional soon.

Company B's RF and digital boards fully connected. After tracking down some noise problems generated by the digital board (100 mA p-p square wave currents from shorted PLD pin), the boards passed a full loopback test.

Company B's boards undergo initial installation in the "007" briefcase following successful bench testing!

Work on the products will continue next semester (by Jarrod Seymour and others) to get them ready for KSU's Open-House exhibit. Remaining work consists primarily of building the second board sets, more testing, and "fine tuning" of the hardware and software.

Congratulations to both companies on an excellent engineering job - designing and testing a full product in a single semester !