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Welcome to SyDe292 Lab Page

:: Course ::
Circuits, Instrumentation and Measurements

 

:: Lab Schedule ::

Signup lab information will be given in class
 
Lab No. & Lab Title
Start Date
Lab 0
Introduction Lab
Sep. 21
No Lab Report
Lab 1
Resistive Circuits & RC Transients
Sep. 28
Lab 2
RC Circuit Frequency Response & Non Ideal Instruments
Oct. 05
Lab 3
Introduction to Op-Amp
Oct. 12
Lab 4
Practical Op-Amp Circuits
Oct. 19
Lab 5
Instrumentation Amplifiers
Oct. 26
Lab 6
Introduction to Filters
Nov. 02

Lab 7
DtoA & AtoD Conversion Circuits

Nov. 08
Midterm
In-Lab Hands-On Midterm Exam
Nov. 16
Lab 8
Data Acquisition Channel
Nov. 23
Lab 9
Error Analysis of DAQ Channel
Nov. 30
No Lab Report
   
:: Teaching Assistants ::
Names, assigned Lab Day and Contact Information
 

Charles Farkas
Office: DC 3622
Email: cfarkas@uwaterloo

Andrew Logan
Office: E2 1303F
Email: aslogan@engmail

Hossein Parsaei
Office:
Email: hparsaei@engmail

Chris Waddington
Office: E2 1306B
Email: cwadding@uwaterloo

 

:: TA's Schedule ::

Lab TA's timings
are: 2:30 to 5:30pm - Monday to Thursday in the Teaching Lab CPH1335A

Resource Hour TA's timings are: 2:30 to 3:30pm - Monday to Thursday in the Teaching Lab CPH1335A

In Lab TA (TBA)
Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -

Office Hour / Resource TA
(TBA)
Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -

Which TA will mark your report: (TBA)
Lab 1 and 5 by
Lab 2 and 6 by
Lab 3 and 7 by
Lab 4 and 8 by

Lab Report Due Date
The report will be due on the same day following week.
For example if you have done your lab on Monday then your lab report is due on Monday following week.

Lab Report Submission Box
Please submit your reports in the box slot marked as "SyDe 292" sitting between 1303A and 1303B classes in the E2 corridor.

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Lectures Power Point Presentations:

Outline.ppt
Circuit Components.ppt
Circuit Concepts.ppt
E&M Concepts.ppt
Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis.ppt
Instrumentation Amplifiers.ppt

Assignments Solutions ( will be posted later)


Lab #.7 - Data Acquisition & LabVIEW

Lab #.3 Part II.2 - Input Offset Voltage
Explaining the use of Compensation Resistor

Lab #.2 - Phase Shift
Determining the phase shift between two sinusoidal signals using Oscilloscope


:: TUTORIALS & LINKS ::

Pre-Lab Tutorial
Basic Electricity Concept and Formula's

Electronic Teaching Assistant
The Electronic Teaching Assistant consists of the Circuit Design Lab, Interactive Illustrations and Electric Circuit Study Applets.


Thevenizing a Circuit

Tutorial Notes on Thevenizing a Circuit

RC Transients Notes
Tutorial Notes on RC Transients
RC Circuits (Java Applet)

Op-Amps Notes
Operational Amplifiers Basics
Detailed Notes on Operational Amplifiers

MIT Open Courseware
Excellent Notes on Circuits & Electronics

Useful Tips & Bread Board Layout
Useful Tips for wiring circuit and breadboard layout

Circuit Grounds and Grounding Practices
A good link to understand, how to ground your circuit

Circuit Guide
Linear Integrated Circuit Selector Guide

:: Cool Links ::

Components
Ohm's Law (Java Applet)
Simple AC Circuit (Java Applet)
General Infromation
Picking Capacitors
IEEE-Electronics Infromation Page

Test and Measurements
Input Coupling (DC / AC)
Oscilloscope Basic Function (Java Applet)
Electrical Engineering Calculators
Measurements
Measuring and testing
Oscilloscope Probe Tutorial

Strain Gage
Using Strain Gages
Electrical Resistance Strain Gage Circuits
Strain Measurements
Stress, Strain, and Strain Gages
Wheat-Stone Bridge
Wheatstone Bridge Schematic

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:: DATA SHEETS ::

IN4148 Diode
LM741 Operational Amplifier - More Info.
LINA114- Precision IA - More Info.
LHI-574A - 12 Bit A/D Converters
AD7870 - Complete 12-Bit, 100 kHz, Sampling ADC
MiniLab1008 - USB DAQ Device


:: COOL SOFTWARE::

Resistor Color Coder 
Resistor Color Code Calculator from Schematica


Filter Design Software
  FilterPro™ MFB and Sallen-Key Design Program is a Windows application that designs Multiple-Feedback and Sallen-Key low-pass and high-pass filters using opamps, resistors and capacitors. It also supports a fully-differential version of the MFB circuit. This program supports Bessell, Butterworth, and Chebychev filter types and can be used to design filters from 1 to 10 poles. The capacitor values in each stage can be either selected by the computer or entered by the designer. An "always on" prompt window provides context-sensitive help information to the user. The response of the filter is displayed on a graph, showing gain, phase and group delay over frequency.
Filter Pro from Texas Instruments


555 Timer Design Software
 
555 Timer Design Software from Schematica

Liner Technology
Design Simulation and Device Models
A llow novice designers to quickly and easily
evaluate circuits using high performance
switching regulators, amplifiers, data converters,
filters and more.

Other Software  
Link to many Basic Electronic Software
(Needs Registration)


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This page has been updated on September 10, 2009