Related Classes: EE443 (Microprocessors)

Equipments:  

• 13 Personal Computers (Intel Pentium 4, 3.06 GHz, 504 MByte RAM, Flat LCD Displays) installed with CodeWarrior Software for FreeScale Microcontrollers.

• 13 evaluation boards of M68EVB912D60, used to experiment with 16-bit microcontrollers of FreeScale, MC68HC912D60.

• 13 Serial Debugging Interface boards, used to program microcontrollers and do hardware debugging.

• 13 DC adapters, 5 VDC.

• 8 oscilloscopes (Hameg, HM203, 20 MHz), used to measure pulse width, frequency and period in experiments related to the usage of the timer modules of microcontrollers.

• 13 PS/2 keyboards, used in experiments teaching how to communicate with microcontrollers through PS/2 interface.

Purpose:

Students use this laboratory to gain experience on registers, addressing modes, instruction sets, memory structure, interrupts, background debugging mode, serial communication interface, analog to digital conversion unit, and timing unit of microcontrollers. Studied microcontoller is MC68HC912D60, 16-bit microcontroller of Freescale’s HC12 family. Software such as Codewarrier and MCUEZ assemblers and debuggers, running on the PCs in the laboratory, are used to write assembly and C codes intended for these microcontrollers. Experiments are done using evaluation boards of these microcontrollers.

Equipments:

• 17 Bread Board/Full Kits (SC-2075 prototyping Signal Accessory Box with Output Cables), 15 Data Acquisition Toolboxes (NI PCI 6221(M Series) Multifunction I/O&NI-DAQ), 2 Data Acquisition Toolboxes (NI PCI 6052E Multifunction I/O&NI-DAQ), 17 FPGA Boards (Xess XSA-200), 17 Extender Boards for FPGAs (Xess XST-3)
• Analog and Digital multimeters, Oscilloscopes, Signal generators, True RMS Voltmeters, Vacuum Tube Voltmeters
• PCB manufacturing equipments: Ultra Vitalux UV Lamp,oven, chemicals, PCB cutter, a mechanic drill.
• 16 Personal Computers

Purpose:

Students use this laboratory to get familiar with basic electrical measuring instruments, to understand principles of electrical measurements, to learn about printed circuit boards and to manufacture them, to get familiar with digital systems and then to excel in them. Students in this laboratory are introduced to voltmeters, ampermeters and oscilloscopes. They make electrical measurements such as AC and DC voltages and currents. They draw schematic diagrams and simulate simple analog circuits using SPICE and manufacture printed circuit boards. They do soldering, wiring and boxing of their electronic circuits. Also students use this laboratory to understand digital logic and digital electronics. They use bread board kits to build digital circuits and use National Instruments’ data acquisition toolboxes and LabView software to apply digital signals and acquire digital outputs. Furthermore, mostly seniors and graduate students use FPGA kits in this laboratory to implement their very large scale digital systems which were designed using a higher level hardware description language (VHDL).

This laboratory serves “EE479-Telecommunications Laboratory” and “EE-561-Microwaves” courses as well as graduate researches.

It is equipped by PC’s for LabView soft texperiments, Basic measuring instruments, telecommunications and Microwave experiment sets and more advanced test equipments such as Spectrum and Network Analysers, Microwave signal generators and frequency counters, power meters, Noise Figure meters etc. There is a Screened Room (Faraday’s Cage) for low noise measurements.