The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering operates an extensive set of undergraduate teaching laboratories. These facilities are equipped with modern computing, test and measurement equipment. The Department also has a highly developed computing environment with more than 300 workstations which allow access to advanced computer aided analysis, design and engineering software.
A detailed list of the equipment and the computing facilities in each laboratory is available below.
CIRCUIT SYSTEMS
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS LABORATORY
Equipment:
- Analog Scope: Fluke PM3055 60MHz
- Power Supply: Dual output, HP E3620A 0-25V-1A, Single Output, Heath EUW-17 0-35V-0.5A
- Decade Capacitance Box, 2 units
- Decade Resistance Box, 4 units
- Decade Inductor Box
- Function Generator: Wavetek Model 20, 2MHz
- Digital Multimeter: 2 units of Fluke Model 45
- Analog Multimeter: Simpson Model 260
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LABORATORY
- Digital Scope: TDS 340A 100MHz 500MS/s
- Spectrum Analyzer: Stanford Research Systems SR760, 100 kHz
- Power Supply: Dual output, Anatek Model 50-10
- Function Generator: 2 units of Tektronix CFG253 3MHz
- Volt Meter: 2 units of HP 427A
- Low Pass Filter and Analog Multiplier Modules
- LabVolt microwave experiment modules
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY
- 1.2 GHz P4 PC, 17 in. monitor
- Analog Scope: Hitachi V-212, 20 MHz
- 68HC11 MPP V1 Board
- EEbot wheeled robot
- VMware running Windows/XP
DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY
- 2 GHz P4 PC, 15 in. monitor
- Sun Sparcstation, Model 5, 19 in. monitor
- Digital Scope: Tektronix
- Function Generator: GW GFG 8015G
- Motorola DSP 56002 Board
- Spectrum Analyzer: HP3580A, 50 kHz
- VMware running Windows/XP
GENERAL ACCESS COMPUTER LABORATORY
- Pentium 4 workstations, 1GB RAM, 19 in. monitors, running Fedora Core 10 with Gnome Desktop and VMware running Windows/XP.
CONTROL SYSTEMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS LABORATORY
- P4 PCs, Realtime Linux workstation: 19 in. monitor
- DSP based Servo Experiment module operated through MATLAB/ Simulink
- CRS Plus robot arms and control computers
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES LABORATORY
- Dual Processor Sun Blade 1000, 1GB memory, 21 in. monitor, all equipped with Sun-PC K6-400 MHz PC cards
- Logic Analyzer: HP E9340A 34 Channel 100MHz
- FPGA - CPLD Experiment Module
DIGITAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY
- Pentium 4, 17 in. monitor
- Analog Scope: Hitachi V-212 20MHz
- Power Supply: Single Output, HP 6200B Function Generator: Beckman FG2A
- Digital I/O box
- P1 PCs used for program development and EPROM/PAL programmers (Data IO ChipWriter)
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
INSTRUMENTATION AND PROJECT LABORATORY
- P4 1 GHz PCs, 17 in. Monitor
- Digital Scope: 2/4 Channel HP 54600A, 100MHz/HP 54602B, 150MHz
- Power Supply: Triple Output, HP E3630A 0-6V-2.5A, +/-20V-0.5A
- Soldering Station: Weller WTCPT
- Function Generator: Tektronix CFG253 3MHz and Philips PM5132 2MHz
- Digital Multimeters: HP 34401A, Fluke 8012A
ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
- Analog/Digital Scope: Philips PM3335 60MHz, 20MS/s
- Power Supply; Triple Output, HP E3630A 0-6V-2.5A +/-20V-0.5A
- Function Generator: HP 33120A
- Digital Multimeter: 2 units, Fluke 8012A, Fluke 45
- Decade Resistance Box
- Variac
POWER SYSTEMS
POWER SYSTEM LABORATORY
- Motor-Generator Set: Hampden
- Digital Multimeter: GW GDM-8034
- Digital Watt Meter: Elcontrol Nano Vip
- 3 Phase Load Bank
- 3 Phase Variac
- PC 486 33MHz
- PLC: Telemecanique PL7-2
ELECTRIC MACHINES LABORATORY
- Motor Rack by LabVolt including: 3-Phase Power Supply, Wound Rotor Machine, Synchronous Machine, DC Machine, Electro-Dynamometer, Dual Watt Meter, Load Bank, Transformer
- Digital Multimeter: Beckman 360
- Digital Volt Ohm Meter: 3 units of Fluke 10
- Digital Watt Meter: Elcontrol Nano Vip
- Digital Scope: HP56002B 150MHz
COMPUTING FACILITIES
COMPUTE SERVER
- Sun Enterprise 3500 server: 6x450MHz UltraSPARC II, 4GB memory
SOFTWARE
Numeric and Symbolic Analysis, Engineering System Design, Simulation
- MATLAB/Simulink with various toolboxes
- Maple
- Simscript
- Spice 3f4
- Altera CPLD and FPGA Tools
- Quartus 5.0
- Cadence and Cadence-SPW
- Eagle Soft CAD Tool
- Highwire
- Hspice
- Mentor Graphics Renoir/Calibre
- Motorola 68000 and 68HC11 Development Tools (C-Compilers and Assemblers)
- Motorola 56000/96000 DSP Development Packages
- PALASM, OPAL, GAL and PAL Simulators and Programmers
- PCB (Printed Circuit Board Development Package)
- Power Systems CAD Tools (PSCAD)
- Quicklogic VHDL and FPGA Tools
- Synopsys
- Xilinx Gate Array Design Package
- Agilent: Advanced Design System (ADS)
- Agilent: Golden Gate
- Adobe Acroread
- Emacs, Jedit, Eclipse, Netbeans
- Ghostview/Ghostscript
- GnuPlot
- Mozilla Firefox
- MS Office, Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice
- TeX and LaTeX
- Dia
- Qcad
- Xfig, Xpaint, GIMP, PBM Utilities, Image Magick Toolkit
- GCC, Sun Professional C Compiler
- Java SDK