Smart Digital Systems / Embedded Systems

Welcome to Dr Wahid's MPP Lab. The lab is equipped with many state-of-the-art embedded system and FPGA development boards, bio-sensors and video processing boards with many tools and software. We also have Pillcam and Mirocam capsule endoscopy systems and Equivita body monitoring systems integrated with many physiological sensors. Thanks to the research funding from our sponsors.

IoT platform in plant phenotyping 2019	Minirhizotron (soilcam) with IoT capability	Minirhizotron (soilcam) with IoT capability - field setup	360 degree view of in-situ canola root in low N setting
IoT platform for smart application 2019	IoT system using LoRaWAN for water quality monitoring	IoT system for water quality monitoring near South Saskatchewan River	(a) IoT system using LoRaWAN, WiFi and RFID in smart mining; (b) IoT system in real-time smart video surviellance
Sensor development for plant phenotyping	Low-cost LiDAR for trait characterization of canola/wheat	Electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) sensor for wheat seed characterization	Multispectral sensor array for leaf N and macronutrients detection
Low-cost fluorescence microscope	Design components	Working prototype with real-time view	Malignant cells highlighted under our prototype
Lab demo to MP Brad Trost	Photo courtesy: WED Canada Saskatoon	Project demo with the minister (Photo courtesy: WED Canada Saskatoon)	Holding the image processor IC (fab by CMC Microsystems)
Next-gen WCE prototype (under development)	WCE prototype with physiological sensors (under dev)	New bleeding detection system using color sensor (under dev)	Performance evaluation of our prototype with pillcam
Wireless capsule endoscopy prototype 3 Tareq Khan	Developed FPGA prototype and PCB	Developed FPGA prototype and PCB	Animal trial of the prototype
Wi-Fi adapter for medical applications Ravi Shrestha	Testing on Nexus4 and Laptop	In-vivo trial using pig (adapter and Nexus7)	adapter front and back
Personal Wireless Hub (PWH) Ravi Shrestha	PWH with pulse sensor	PWH with temp sensor	(a) PWH Android mobile app, (b) WCE Android viewer
Android-Iridium Interface Ravi Shrestha	Hardware development	Android mobile app	Android mobile app
Wireless capsule endoscopy prototype 2 Tareq Khan	Developed FPGA prototype	Developed FPGA prototype for animal	Developed FPGA prototype for animal trial
Data logger for medical imaging applications Tareq Khan	Data logger with pulse sensor	Front and back	Data acquisition on the data logger
iBridge - interface between image sensor and image processor Tareq Khan	Hardware development	IBridge GUI	iBridge layout using CMOS 0.18um process
Wireless capsule endoscopy prototype 1 Tareq Khan	Developed prototype with microcontroller	Developed prototype with microcontroller	Verification using FPGA
Car remote and tracking Undergraduate design project	Hardware for remote care starter using GSM	Android mobile app for remote car starter	Hardware for real-time vehicle tracker

Chip (IC) Fabrication

“Lossless Image Compressor for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy”, Size: 1.45 mm x 1.45 mm (CMOSP18), 2,500 transistors, March, 2011 – T. Khan and K. Wahid

An image compressor chip consuming ultra-low power to be used in wireless endoscopic capsule prototype

“Dual Daubechies Wavelet Transform Processor for Image Compression”, Size: 1.76 mm x 1.52 mm (CMOSP18), 7,533 transistors, 100MHz, November, 2009 – Md. Islam and K. Wahid

A DSP chip that computes discrete wavelet transform using a novel arithmetic technique known as "algebraic integer mapping". The chip is to be used in image compression and watermarking applications

“Hybrid Cosine-Fourier-Haar Transform Processor for Image Compression”, Size: 2.12 mm x 2.00 mm (CMOSP18), 20,400 transistors, 100MHz, November, 2009

S. Shimu and K. Wahid - A DSP chip that computes three discrete transforms - Cosine, Fourier and Wavelet - at the same time using a novel sharing algorithm. It is to be used in video compression and digital authentication application in modern mobile devices