Room 9-507

Computer Networks

Lab Director: Toma Sacco

Courses Offered:

ECE204L, ECE341L, ECE342L, ECE426L, ECE433L, ECE 431L

Laboratory Size: 1344 square feet

Average # of students per year: 259

Lab Function:

This is a laboratory for teaching computer networks, including both local area networks and wide area networks. This lab is also used to teach hardware and firmware laboratories.

Lab Status:

This room is equipped with:

• Twelve 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

• Twelve 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. Network simulation software.
2. Twelve DMMs
3. Twelve Power Supplies
4. Twelve Function Generators