Room 9-435

Microcontroller Lab

Lab Director: Kathleen Hayden

Courses Offered:

ECE204L, ECE220L, ECE320L, ECE322L,ECE325L, ECE 341L, ECE 342L, ECE343L

Laboratory Size: 1446 square feet

Average # of students per year: 390

Lab Function:

This is our fundamental laboratory in microprocessors, microcontrollers and embedded systems. It also serves as a general purpose Digital Electronics laboratory.

Lab Status:

• Fifteen networked PCs. Each PC is loaded with the following software:

  • Cadence
  • Java Web Start
  • Eclipse
  • Cypress
  • Lightning Analysts
  • MathSoft Apps
  • MATLAB 6.5
  • Microsoft Developer Network
  • Microsoft Office Tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
  • ModelSim SE 5.7d
  • National Instruments LabVIEW 6.1
  • Xilinx ISE 5
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft FrontPage
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
  • Xterm to es-sun-00

• Fifteen laboratory benches each equipped with:

• DMM (Tektronix, DM502)
• 2-channel 100 MHZ HP digital oscilloscope provided with a measurement/storage module . Measurement obtained by these oscilloscope could be transferred to the computers where analysis are performed.
• Function Generator (Tektronix, 502)
• Power Supply (Tektronix, PS503A)

• PLD Programmer 

Current Problems with the Laboratory:

• The DMMs, Power Supplies, and Function Generators are old and they need to be replaced.

Equipment Needs:

1. Fifteen DMMs
2. Fifteen Power Supplies
3. Fifteen Function Generators