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• Faculty - Spring 2010
  • KL Cooper
  • LJ Durbeck
    
• Durham Hall access by passport reader is enabled on weekends for all ECE students.
• Enter the West door between Whittemore and Durham, under the walkway.
  
• Non-ECE students should contact their professor for access.
• General
  • CEL Online Validation and Question Queue
  • Datasheets
  • How to Read Datasheets
    
  • Xeltek SuperPro 580U Universal Programmer and Logic IC Tester
    • in 368 Durham
  • Sample Lab Reports (zip)
• Manuals
  • Lab Manual Spring 2004
    • Not current. Use only relevant material
• Projects
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• Lab Kits
• ECE Lab Kits
• Breadboard Wire
• A&D Board User Manual and Test Procedure
  • Preventing voltage regulator latch-up on the A&D Board
  • Grounding A&D Board U6 for Proper Digital Pulser Operation (pdf)
    • For soldering assistance, see Hardware Support Procedures
• Hardware Support Procedures
• Logicworks
  • Logicworks naming issues
  • Logicworks 5.0 Release version
    • Install 5.0 beta from CD first
  • 7400Actual library (zip) - chip layout matches actual footprint (7400, 02, 04, 27, 175)
  • Logicworks 4 Tutorial (pdf)
  • Logicworks: Printing Design Window
  • Logicworks: 4.1b2 Printing Timing Window
  • Logicworks: 5.0b9 Timing Window
  • Logicworks: Changing the Propagation Time of a gate or gates within a chip (zip)
  • Logicworks Home
• Microchip PIC and MPLAB information
  
  • MPLAB 8.10 (zip)
  • Microchip Technology, Inc.(manufacturer's site to download latest MPLab version)
  • MPLab v6.xx Setting Tool Locations
  • MPLab and PIC Common Errors (updated Spring 2005)
  • PIC16F8X Datasheet/Manual (pdf)
  • PIC Guide v1.5 (pdf)

• Faculty - Spring 2010
• AL Abbott
  
• KL Cooper
• JS Thweatt
• Durham Hall access by passport reader is enabled on weekends for all ECE students.
• Enter the West door between Whittemore and Durham, under the walkway.
  
• Non-ECE students should contact their professor for access.
• CEL Online Validation and Question Queue
• How to Read Datasheets
• Spartan Boards
• When ordering a S3E board from Digilent, choose "customer arranged shipping" and address = "same as billing information"
• Digilent Spartan S3E Board Distribution
• Digilent S3E User Guide
  
• Spartan S3E Board Test (zip)
• Spartan S3E Jumper Wire for Test 2
• Spartan S3E Board Support

• Lab 4 Parts
• Remember that all students are required to have an A&D board and parts kit from ECE2074.
  
• Contact CEL TA in 368 Durham during open hours.
• Help
  • Hardware Support
  • Xeltek SuperPro 580U Universal Programmer and Logic IC Tester
• Tektronix TDS-210 Oscilloscope
  • Quick TDS-210 oscilloscope tutorial
  • TDS-210 User Manual
  • TDS-210 waveform capture (pdf). Ask TA for null-modem cable.

• Faculty - Spring 2010
  • JS Thweatt
    
• Durham Hall access by passport reader is enabled on weekends for all ECE students.
• Enter the West door between Whittemore and Durham, under the walkway.
  
• Non-ECE students should contact their professor for access.
• General
  • CEL Online Validation and Question Queue
  • Datasheets
  • How to Read Datasheets
  • Xeltek SuperPro 580U Universal Programmer and Logic IC Tester
    • in 368 Durham
• Projects
  • 
    
• Lab Kits
  • ECE Lab Kits
  • Breadboard Wire
  • A&D Board User Manual and Test Procedure
    • Preventing voltage regulator latch-up on the A&D Board
    • Grounding A&D Board U6 for Proper Digital Pulser Operation (pdf)
      • For soldering assistance, see Hardware Support Procedures
  • Hardware Support Procedures
• Logicworks
  • Logicworks naming issues
  • Logicworks 5.0 Release version
    • Install 5.0 beta from CD first
  • 7400Actual library (zip) - chip layout matches actual footprint (7400, 02, 04, 27, 175)
  • 3504chips library (zip)
  • Logicworks 4 Tutorial (pdf)
  • Logicworks: Printing Design Window
  • Logicworks: 4.1b2 Printing Timing Window
  • Logicworks: 5.0b9 Timing Window
  • Setting gate delays in LogicWorks
  • 74175 Pin Label Bug in LogicWorks3 and LogicWorks4
  • Logicworks: Changing the Propagation Time of a gate or gates within a chip (zip)
  • Logicworks Home
• PLD Software and 22V10 Chips
  • Download WinCUPL from Atmel
  • if the link moves, google "atmel wincupl"
  • WinCUPL Users Manual can be downloaded from the same link
    
  • Atmel ATF22V10C data sheet (pdf)
  • Xeltek SuperPro 580U Universal Programmer and Logic IC Tester

• Faculty - Fall 2009
• PM Athanas
  
• Durham Hall access by passport reader is enabled on weekends for all ECE students.
• Enter the West door between Whittemore and Durham, under the walkway.
  
• Non-ECE students should contact their professor for access.
• CEL Online Validation and Question Queue
• Spartan Boards
• Digilent S3E User Guide
  
• Digilent Spartan S3E Board Distribution
• Spartan S3E Board Test (zip)
• Spartan S3E Board Support
• Install
  • Installing Cadence LDV 5.1 (pdf)
• Help
  • Datasheets
  • How to Read Datasheets
  • Tektronix TDS-210 Oscilloscope
    • Quick TDS-210 oscilloscope tutorial (html)
    • TDS210 User Manual (pdf)
• Manufacturer's Links
  • Cadence
  • Xilinx

• Faculty -  Spring 2010
  • MT Jones
    
  • PE Plassmann
• Durham Hall access by passport reader is enabled on weekends for all ECE students.
• Enter the West door between Whittemore and Durham, under the walkway.
  
• Non-ECE students should contact their professor for access.
• 4534: Student Guide to the Embedded Systems Lab (pdf)
• Spartan Boards
• Digilent Spartan S3E Board Distribution
• Digilent S3E User Guide
  
• Spartan S3E Board Test (zip)
• Spartan S3E Board Support
• Spartan-3E Complete Data Sheet (pdf)
  
• Group Lockers
• Group Locker Contents and Ordering Information (pdf)
  
• LocoNet
• Trains Quick Start Guide (pdf)
  
• Tracks in 375 Durham
  
• INSTEON
• Basic Insteon Device Testing 15jan2010 (pdf)
• Insteon Testing Docs 15jan2010 (zip)
  
• Insteon Details whitepaper (pdf)
• Insteon Hacking Guides (html)
• 
  
• Datasheets
• TEPT4400 photo transistor (pdf)
• sensitive to visible light much like the human eye
• Digi-Key 751-1057-ND
• P82B96 I2C Active Terminator (pdf)
• Philips AN255-02 I2C Buffers (pdf)
• Advanced Circuits
• PC board manufacturing process (pdf)
  
• Eagle
• PC Board Design Example (pdf)
• Make op amp power pins visible (google is your friend)
  
• http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/tools/software/eagle/eagle-2-libraries/
• Top menu=>Edit=>Invoke
• Select=>op amp on schematic
• Table appears
• Select PWR+-
  
• OK
  
• Magically, power pins appear on schematic, which you can move to the desired location.
• PICdemo_v4 parts list (xls inside zip)
• Bob L's Eagle Library for PICdemo and PICaddon boards (lbr inside zip)
  
• Projects
• Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts
• Watch this: Up to speed with Project 2007
  
• How to Read Datasheets
• Williamson Labs Tutorials
• National Semiconductor Op Amp Application Notes
• Analog Devices Application Notes
• Maxim Application Notes
• Texas Instruments Technical Documents
• Fairchild Semiconductor Application Notes
• Microchip Application Notes
  
• Soldering
• Students, who pass this Soldering Certification, may solder in 375 Durham
• Soldering Safety Checklist (pdf)
  
• Soldering Practical
• PICdemo_v4 Soldering Steps (pdf)
  
• Surface Mount Reflow Calibration (pdf)
• Product Data Sheets
• Kester 275 Solder
• Kester 951 Flux Pen
• TechSpray Solder Braid
  
• Material Safety Data Sheets
• Kester 275 Solder
• Kester 951 Flux Pen
• Ameritronics Zero Lead Solder Paste
  
• TechSpray Solder Braid
  
• R&R Lotion Tip Tinner
• PCB Drill Guidelines
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Practical_Electronics/PCB_Layout
• http://www.samtec.com/standard_products/pcb_hole_sizes.asp
• http://www.diversifiedsystemsinc.com/ServicesProducts/Assembly/DesignGuidelines.asp
  
• Help
  
  • D-Link DES-1108 8-port Switch User Manual (zip)
  • Williamson Labs Tutorials
  • Pull-up Resistors
    
  • Datasheets
  • How to Read Datasheets
  • PCB Errors, Fall 2007
    

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  • animated pictures de-mystify oscilloscopes, circuits, design, theory, analog, etc.