Room II-219

Electronics Laboratory

Coordinator:

David Rancour, Associate Professor

Size:

43' X 23'

Description:

This room is outfitted with 12 stations and is used to support the undergraduate courses in Electronics (ECE 311 and ECE 312), Digital Logic and Computer Design (ECE 260), and Digital Processing of Speech Signals (ECE 477).

Each station consists of equipment necessary to perform an array of tests and measurements on electronic circuits that students have previously constructed on breadboards. The E&L DD-1 Digi Designers have self-contained power supplies, switches, and indicator LEDs that are required for the analysis and testing of digital circuits.

A PC that is networked to a printer and software packages including Electronics Workbench, MATLAB, Microsoft Word, and Excel resides at each station. Students become proficient in the use of the software by using it to tabulate collected data, verify the experimental results by simulating the circuit under study, and to write their lab report.

The equipment at each station is adequate to perform basic tests and measurements. The PCs are upgraded by "recycling" motherboards, disk drives, memory, etc. from other ECE Department computers as they are upgraded.

Courses:

• ECE 311 - Digital Electronics, ECE 312 - Analog Electronics
• ECE 311 - Digital Electronics, ECE 312 - Analog Electronics

Equipment:

• (Qty.)
• (12) Computers (350MHz AMD K6, 128M RAM, 3GB HD, 15" Monitor)
• (12) Tektronix 2215A 60MHz Oscilloscopes
• (12) WaveTek Model 271 Function Generators
• (12) Fluke 8840A Multimeters
• (12) Hewlett-Packard 5384A Frequency Counters
• (12) Hewlett-Packard 6205B Duel DC Power Supplies
• (12) E&L Instruments Model DD-1 Digi Designers
• (1) Tektronix 576 Curve Tracer