Teaching Labs

Analog Design Laboratory

Contact Person: Daniel Vuoso
Location: Room 283, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 123, ESE 272, and ESE 324

This laboratory contains seventeen workstations consisting of equipment for testing simple to complex analog circuits, from DC to 20 MHz. Each workstation consists of the following test equipment:

- - - Dell OptiPlex Computer with Programming and Engineering software.
    - Keysight Model DSOX3012A 100 MHz Two Channel Digital Storage Oscilloscope.
    - Keysight Model E3631A Triple Output Power Supply with +6 VDC and +/- 25 VDC outputs.
    - Keysight Model E36312A Triple Output Power Supply with +6 VDC and +/- 25 VDC outputs.
    - Keysight Model 34461A 6½ Digit Digital Multimeter.
    - Keysight Model 34450A 6½ Digit Digital Multimeter.
    - Keysight Model 33210A Arbitrary Waveform Generator with signals from 0.1 Hz to 10 MHz.
    - Keysight Model 33220A Arbitrary Waveform Generator with signals from 0.1 Hz to 20 MHz.
    - Three section Solderless Breadboard for the construction and testing of circuits designed in the laboratory.

This laboratory includes 8 Soldering Stations for the assembly of printed circuit boards. An Instek LCR-8205 Automatic RCL meter is available for general use. The workstations are networked through a Ubiquiti 24 port Gigabit switch to a HP M611 LaserJet Network Printer. The CAD laboratory is used in conjunction with this laboratory for the design, modeling, and simulation of all Analog and Digital circuits built and tested for laboratory experiments.

Computer Aided Design Laboratory

Contact Person: Jenny Chen
Location: Room 281, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 123, ESE 124, ESE 118, ESE 271, ESE 272, ESE 300, ESE 305, ESE 306, ESE 315, ESE 324, ESE 337, ESE 345, ESE 346, ESE 358, ESE 273, ESE 280, ESE 381,ESE 382, ESE 440, ESE 441, ESE 475, ESE 476, ESE 499

The Electrical & Computer Engineering Computer Aided Design Laboratory is the primary computing resource for all undergraduate courses taught in the department. The ECE CAD Lab offers undergraduate students access to CAD software tools used to analyze, model, simulate, and better understand engineering concepts. The lab supports every undergraduate course in the department.

The lab has a total of 42 Windows based Dell PC's, 1 Mac Mini, 2 Linux based machines (Ubuntu, Rocket), that are networked via switched ethernet to a Dell file server. There is one network laser printer available for students to print their results.

The following software packages are available to the users on the network:

Cadence LDV (VHDL and Verilog)
Matlab with three toolboxes - The Mathworks Inc.
Aldec Active HDL – Aldec
Synplicity Pro – Synopsis
Embedded Workbench for Atmel AVR - IAR
ISP Lever - Lattice
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE C, C++ - Microsoft
Dev C++ IDE - Embarcadero Technologies
XCode (Mac Mini) - Apple
Microsoft Office - Microsoft
Pspice Capture, Pspice A/D – Cadence
Image Tool – University of Texas Health Science Center
SynaptiCAD – SynaptiCAD
Texas Instruments TMS329 family development tools

Digital Systems Laboratory

Contact Person: Daniel Vuoso
Location: Room 235, Heavy Engineering
Usage: ESE 118

This laboratory contains sixteen workstations, each consisting of:

Keysight Model MSOX3012A 100 MHz Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, with Two Analog Channels and 16 channel digital logic analyzer
Keysight Model 33210A Arbitrary Waveform Generator w/signals from 0.1 Hz to 10 MHz
Digilent Digital Discovery 16-bit pattern generator
PB 505 Digital Design Workstation
Dell OptiPlex Computer with Programming and Engineering software

The Keysight Mixed Signal Oscilloscope can capture and display up to 16 channels of digital data via a flexible dual 8-channel cable and two channels of analog data. Data acquisition is accomplished by normal, time base, channel activity, or glitch triggering. The PB 505 Digital Design Workstation is a multi-function breadboard system, which consists of the following:

A three section Solderless Breadboard for the construction and testing of circuits
A function generator, which outputs sine waves, triangle waves, square waves, and TTL square waves from 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz
Three internal power supplies with a fixed +5VDC, a +1.3 to +15 VDC variable output, and a -1.3 to -15 VDC variable output
16 LED logic indicators (8 logic HIGH and 8 Logic LOW)
8 Logic switches, two debounced switches, and an 8 ohm speaker

The CAD laboratory is used in conjunction with this laboratory for the design, modeling, and simulation of all Digital circuits built and tested for laboratory experiments.

Digital Systems Rapid Prototyping Laboratory

Contact Person: Bryant Gonzaga, Prof. Ken Short
Location: Room 230, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 382, ESE 440, ESE 441, ESE 475, ESE 476, ESE 499

The Digital Systems Rapid Prototyping Laboratory is devoted to teaching, research, and system design projects involving advanced digital systems employing embedded microprocessor based systems and VHDL based digital systems. The laboratory is located adjacent to the Embedded Systems Design Laboratory (ESDL), in room 228 on the second floor of the Light Engineering building.

The DSRPL facility is structured to support advanced digital design projects, as well as the laboratory portion of an upper division undergraduate VHDL digital design course, ESE-382. The lab room is configured with design stations equipped with computer workstations that are networked to the laboratory's RAID 1 compliant Windows 2003 server. Each workstation includes a dual-display design interface, and provides access to a number of sophisticated software design packages, including ActiveHDL by Aldec, Synplify Pro by Synopsys, ispLEVER by Lattice Semiconductor, and other related software packages. All software packages utilize floating licensing, and are available on virtually all computers in the DSRPL, as well as the ESDL (see above).

The project design verification stations may also be configured with a variety of test and debugging equipment, as needed for a respective design project. Available are JTAG based (on-chip) in-circuit emulators, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, digital storage oscilloscopes, arbitrary function/waveform generators, frequency counters, and a variety of other standard and custom lab test equipment. Further available in this room is a device programming station that supports a large number of programmable logic devices including EPROMs, microcontrollers, standard and complex PLDs, and FPGAs. Currently this lab supports digital system design projects utilizing a large varienty of configurable devices such as CPLDs, Cross-over PLDs, and FPGAs from Lattice, Xilinx, and Altera.

The DSRPL meets all requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and other mandated safety requirements of the Federal and New York State governments. There are several wheel-chair accessible student workstations available in the DSRPL.

Embedded Systems Design Laboratory

Contact Person: Bryant Gonzaga, Prof. Ken Short
Location: Room 230, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 380, ESE 381, ESE 440, ESE 441, ESE 475, ESE 499

The Embedded Systems Design Laboratory (ESDL) is devoted to teaching and system design projects involving embedded microprocessor and microcomputer based systems. The primary portion of the laboratory is located in the Light Engineering building, on the second floor, in room 230. A project related area is located in a portion of an adjacent room, room 228.

The ESDL facility is used primarily to support the laboratory portions of two undergraduate courses: ESE-380 and ESE-381, Embedded Microprocessor Systems Design I and II. The main portion of the lab contains 13 student stations, each of which supports a group of 2 students. Each student station is equipped with a networked personal computer (PC), a full function state-of-the-art solderless breadboarding system, a Fluke model 45 dual display digital multimeter, an HP 54603B Digital Storage 28 Oscilloscope, and a variety of other test equipment. Each station also has available a number of specialized microcomputer daughter boards and accessories, along with several industry standard JTAG-ICE debugging units, which collectively provide support for a large number of microcomputer devices and system design projects. Finally, a variety of specialty and custom designed items are available at each of the student stations, based on that semester’s student design project.

The ESDL facility also has available a device programming station that is used in by students enrolled in ESE380, ESE381, ESE475, ESE476, ESE499, and ESE440/441. The programming station enables the programming of SPLDs, CPLDs, EPROMS, microcontrollers, and a large number of other classic and state-of-the-art programmable devices.

Each personal computer of each lab station is networked via a gigabit Ethernet local area network (LAN), providing connectivity to the lab’s Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server. This server is RAID 1 compliant and has eight high capacity high speed SCSI hard drives. At the present time the server is running the Windows Server 2003 network operating system. The laboratory LAN is connected by a dedicated firewall to the campus switched Ethernet network and the Internet. This provides high speed access to a variety of on and off campus computer systems and Websites. This server also supports the DSRPL facility (see below).

The ESDL meets all requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and other mandated safety requirements of the Federal and New York State governments. There is also one wheel-chair accessible student station in the ESDL.

Modern Circuit Board Design and Prototyping Laboratory

Contact Person: Daniel Vuoso
Location: Room 283A, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 323, 440 and 441

This laboratory is used for the design, fabrication and testing of prototype printed circuit board designs utilizing surface mount components. 3D printers are available for printing enclosures and custom parts.

This laboratory contains six SMT soldering workstations, consisting of:

Weller WX series soldering stations
Hakko Desoldering stations
Various hot air stations

Omano CX3-OM10K Inspection Camera stations or Dino-lite microscope camera stations

This laboratory contains six electronics testing and design workstations, consisting of:

Keysight Model DSO3012A 100 MHz Digital Oscilloscope
Keysight Model 34401A or 34450A Digital Multimeter
Keysight 3631A or E36312A Triple Output Power Supply
Dell Optiplex Computer with Programming and Engineering software

Several workstations also have:

Keysight Model U5855A Thermal Imager
GW Instek Model COM-802 Milliohm Meter
PCB Preheater
Optical microscope with digital image capture

In addition, there are three Ultimaker 2+ Connect 3D Printers, two Makerbot Replicator Plus 3D Printers, two Manual Pick and Place SMT Assembly Machines, two Manncorp Precision Solder Paste Dispensing Stations, one solder stencil station, and a Manncorp MC-301N Reflow Oven.

Senior Design Laboratory

Contact Person: Daniel Vuoso
Location: Room 283B, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 440/441

This laboratory is used for the design, construction, and testing of the Senior Design Projects. It contains nine general work stations consisting primarily of:

Dell OptiPlex Computer with Programming and Engineering software.
Keysight Model DSO3012A or MSO7012A Digital Storage Oscilloscope.
Keysight Model E3631A Triple Output Power Supply with a variable +6 VDC and +/- 25 VDC outputs.
Keysight Model 34401A 6½ Digit Precision Digital Multimeter.
Keysight Model 34459A 5 ½ Digit Digital Multimeter.
Keysight Model 33120A Arbitrary Waveform Generator that produces various signals from 0.1 Hz to 15 MHz.
Keysight Model 33220A Arbitrary Waveform Generator that produces various signals from 0.1 Hz to 20 MHz.

Two RF work stations consisting of:

Keysight Model E4401B Spectrum Analyzer with tracking generator, 9 kHz to 1.5 GHz
Keysight Model 8648A Synthesized Signal Generator, 0.01 to 1000 MHz
Keysight Model 4285A Precision LCR Meter, 75 kHz to 30 MHz
Keysight Model E5100A Network Analyzer, 10 kHz to 180 MHz
Keysight Model 54642A 500 MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope
Keysight Model 4395A Network/Spectrum/Impedance Analyzer, 10 Hz to 500 MHz
BWD-45 Shortwave Dipole and RF Systems Wideband DX500 Active antennae for reception of radio signals

The remaining six work stations consist of six Dell OptiPlex Computers that contain several CAD, Programming and Engineering software packages. All PCs are connected to a HP M402 LaserJet Network Printer.

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