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Circuits and Systems Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Bob Suresh Location: H-822
Courses: ELEC 273, ELEC 275, ELEC 370  

THE  BASIC CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS  LAB, located in H822 in the Hall Building, provides the laboratory components of the following core courses: ELEC273 (Basic Circuit Analysis), ELEC275 (Principles of Elec.    >> more details

Communications Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Bob Suresh Location: H-801
Courses: ELEC 461, ELEC 462, ELEC 464  

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LAB*, located in H801 in the Hall Building, provides the laboratory component of the courses ELEC461 (Communication Circuits & Systems) and ELEC462 (Statistical & Digital Communications).    >> more details

Computer Organization & Software Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: H813.
Courses: COEN 311  
The COEN 311 lab uses the Axiom CMM332 Microcontroller board. In this lab the students learn the basics of programming in assembly language.  The lab consists of 16 individual CMM332 microcontroller boards.  Software development tools include the Windows based AS32 assembler program and the AxIDE software which comes with a single-step debugger and download utilities.    >> more details
Controls Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Bob Suresh Location: H-832-6
Courses: ELEC 372  

FUNDAMENTALS of CONTROL SYSTEMS LAB, located in H832-6 in the Hall Building, provides the laboratory component of the ELEC372 (Fundamentals of Control Systems) course.  ELEC 372 is offered in the Fall & Winter terms.    >> more details

Digital Electronics    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: H-859
Courses: COEN 315  
The COEN 315 lab deals with the design and analysis of digital logic circuits at the transistor level.  The lab is equipped with prototyping equipment in the form of breadboards and test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and function generators.  Analysis of circuit performance in terms of propagation delays, noise margins, rise and fall times are performed in the lab.    >> more details
Digital Signal Processing    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: H-861 (or any standard PC desktop lab)
Courses: ELEC 442  
This lab consists of sofware simulations performed using MATLAB. 
Digital Systems Design I and II    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: COEN 312 = H863 COEN 313 = H913
Courses: COEN 312, COEN 313  
Digital System Design I - COEN 312

AND, OR, NOT, BCD-7SEG-DECODERS, MUX, FLIP-FLOPS and more.
Are these terms strange to you? If you want to learn the basics of digital logic,
the COEN 312 lab will teach you.  This lab consists of a hands-on approach to learning the fundamentals of digital logic  design.    >> more details
Electrical Power Engineering and Power Electronics Laboratory    >>More pictures
Administrator: Joseph Woods Location: H-943 and H-945
Courses: ELEC 331, ELEC 433, ELEC 490 Phone:(514) 848-2424 ext. 3096
Electrical power engineering is the discipline that deals with the generation, distribution and transformation of electrical energy.  The power engineer may work with circuits that range from a large, high-voltage system such as that operated by Hydro-Quebec to a small battery-powered converter in a cell phone.    >> more details
Electronics laboratory    >>More pictures
Administrator: Shailesh Prasad Location: H-855
Courses: ELEC 311 and ELEC 312 Phone:4106
This laboratory teaches the students to investigate circuits through simulation and experimentation. For simulation, the students use the student version of Pspice. The primary focus is to understand BJT and MOSFET based circuits. Some of the circuits that are assembled and simulated in ELEC 311 and 312 are, OPAMP, amplifiers, voltage regulators, current mirrors, current source, differential amplifiers, and power amplifier.    >> more details
Filter Design Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Shailesh Prasad Location: H-861 and one simulation lab.
Courses: ELEC 441 Phone:4106

This lab is attached to ELEC 441 where the students learn about filter design. It consists of 5 lab sessions of which 3 are experimental and two are simulation.
The experimental part uses opamp LM741 and OTA LM 13700. The students test their cuircuits using digital oscilloscope. The simulation part uses Pspice and Hspice.

The lab manual for this course can be purchased at the Bookstore located in the LB building.
Linear System Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Dan Li Location: H805-3
Courses: ELEC481  
This teaching lab is designed for ELEC481 "Linear System", which is provided by ECE department. Right now this lab has been equipped with 4 ECP educational control systems:
  1. ECP Model 220 - Servo Mechanism System
  2. ECP Model 505 - Inverted Pendulum
  3. ECP Model 205 - Torsional Mechanism
  4. ECP Model 730 - Magnetic Levitation 
All system components are made to the highest industrial standards. They have been proven to reliably stand up to many years of continual student use while providing high performance control and data processing. Advanced data processing and intuitive interface software let you immediately implement your control design - either ECP provided or your own - and characterize system behavior. Easy-to-follow instructions guide you through set-up, system operations. Sections on theory, experiments, and detailed instructor solutions greatly accelerate student learning . For more detailed information, you can visit ECP Systems website.
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Microelectronics laboratory    >>More pictures
Administrator: Shailesh Prasad Location: H009
Courses: ELEC 421, 422, 424 Phone:3111 (lab)

This is a fabrication facility where the students can learn about fabrication of BJT and MOSFET. More about MOSFET fabrication in our facility can be found on the following link.

You can log-in as a guest to view and hear how we fabricate MOSFET. More information about the microelectronics laboratory and the equipments used can be found on my homepage.  http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~shailesh/

You can also find here the lab manuals for ELEC 421 and 422. The lab manual for ELEC 424 is same as that for ELEC 421.


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Microprocessor Systems    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: H859
Courses:  
The microprocessor systems lab has the goal of building a complete microprocessor based system that records voice input and plays it back.  The COEN 417 lab is accessible only at the scheduled lab hours.  It is equipped with 6 stations.    >> more details
Microwave Engineering    >>More pictures
Administrator: Jeffrey Landry Location: H-853
Courses: ELEC 453  
The ELEC 453 laboratory investigates phenomena and devices used in microwave engineering. Topics include:

  • waveguide properties
  • striplines and microstrips
  • microwave couplers and cavities
  • microwave filter design
Network Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Dan Li Location: H-919
Courses: ELEC 472, ELEC 465  
ECE Networks Laboratory is engaged in teaching and education in the areas of networks management, network security, wireless communication, quality of service, simulation, multimedia and more ... There are some advanced network equipments in the lab, such as six Cisco routers, one Cisco switch, one Myrinet switch, thirteen Windows/Linux workstations and three servers.
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Optical Fiber Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Shailesh Prasad Location: H-803
Courses: ELEC 425 Phone:4106

This facility is linked to ELEC 425. The students in this lab learn about optical fiber communication. They perform 5 experiments that involves fiber splicing, optical coupling (Unidirectional as well as bidirectional), coupling loss etc.

The lab manuals for this course can be found on my homepage.

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~shailesh/
Real-time Control System Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Dan Li Location: H-863
Courses: ELEC483  

The 2 Degrees of Freedom (2DOF) helicopter model is fixed to a vertically mounted shaft that is free to rotate to left and right giving it a degree of freedom in Yaw (changing of y, or direction). The vehicle is suspended in a frame on the vertical shaft so that it is free to swing up and down giving it a degree of freedom in Pitch (changing of q, or angle). [1]

For more information, you can visit  Quanser website


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Real-time Embedded System Lab    >>More pictures
Administrator: Dan Li Location: H-867, H-803
Courses: COEN 320;COEN 421  
The Real-time System lab is located in H-867 and is equipped with several target applications that include development stations (system with OS) and target machines, all connected over local area networks. The development stations are the desktop machines running QNX and mounting various file systems from ENCS servers. Twenty QNX workstations serve the QNX Lab located in H-803. The current real-time operating system is QNX v6.3. You can use your  ENCS account for your course assignments or projects.
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Semiconductors & Devices    >>More pictures
Administrator: Shailesh Prasad Location: H-861
Courses: ELEC 321 Phone:4106

This lab is a requirement for ELEC 321 where students learn about the electrical and material properties of semiconductors.
Three of the 5 lab sessions involve simulation type of experiments. The students learn to use Carine software which gives information about the crystalline properties of semiconductor. The remaining two lab sessions are equipment-based experiments where the students observe the absorption of light by semiconductors.    >> more details

VLSI Circuit Design    >>More pictures
Administrator: Tadeusz Obuchowicz Location: H915
Courses: COEN 451  
The lab component of this course consists of an unscheduled lab session.  The students are exposed to state-of-the-art CAD tools used in VLSI design.  The labs emphasize VLSI layout of CMOS digital logic and simulation with industry standard tools such as HSPICE.  The software used includes:

  • Cadence Analog Artist
  • HSPICE
  • Cadence Virtuoso Layout Editor

 

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