Overview:

The Analog Senior Projects Lab is an open lab where all EE students may use basic electronic test equipment and instrumentation. Many students work in groups, doing extra projects to develop and support understanding of class and lab assignments. Students taking Senior Project have priority over others. This lab is open Monday through Saturday and is monitored by student employees. Presently there are ten laboratory benches and one large study desk for student use. The benches are equipped as follows:

• Eight benches with standard analog equipment; one bench has a 386/ 16 PC clone with some word processing and SPICE-type programs; one bench has an RLC bridge meter for component measurement.

The standard analog equipment on each bench is as follows:

• Oscilloscope, dual channel, 30 to 50 MHz bandwidth.
• Function generator, dc-14MHz, sine, square and triangle, FM, AM, sweep modulation.
• Frequency Counter, 1Hz - 500mHz, 50 ohm and 1M ohm input impedance.
• Power supply, + 5 Vdc, variable 0 - 20 Vdc plus/minus tracking, 500 mA.
• Pulse generator, 1 - 10 Mpps variable duty cycle, TTL, sync and variable output with dc offset.

Current Problems with the Laboratory:

The equipment is mostly 10 to 15 years old, having been removed from other labs during equipment upgrades in those labs.

Equipment Needs:

• A PC compatible computer with GPIB/488 bus card on most benches (8 in all); software and printer for GPIB/488 control of equipment and outputting of collected data and waveforms.
• Scopes (8 in all), function generator, frequency counter with GPIB bus.
• Audio and RF spectrum analyzers with GPIB bus.
• PC workstation level with SPICE program and schematic capture for PC board layout program

Estimated cost for these upgrades is $70K-$75K.