Discussion Area for Instructional Labs Equipment Wish List

This page is for anyone to provide feedback/input on equipment needed for the instructional labs. Items listed on this page will be added to the equipment wish list table by BELS staff.

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  • specific model number and/or specs for the equipment
  • lab where the equipment is needed
  • courses the equipment would support
  • approx number of students per year (if known) that would use the equipment

Example of a Discussion entry

10 Agilent 33120 digital multimeters are needed for the circuits labs (BE-113). This is for EE070 which has 50 students per quarter and is taught 3 times per year. The existing fluke mm are over 10 yrs old, battery operated, only 4 digits, do not have interfaces for computer data acquisition. Faculty would like mm that can be interfaced to computers and have greater resolution.

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Joel Kubby

  • Items below inserted into wishlist table. -- BobVitale - 09 Dec 2004

Bob,

I have included some suggested numbers below. I have also copied in some of the other EE faculty so that we can tailor these suggestions with their suggestions and equipment that is already available in the department. Thanks for your help with this.

Regards,

Joel Kubby

>Ali and Bob,
>
>Here are some suggestions for instructional labs.
>
>Regards,
>
>Joel
>
> Photonics instructional lab
>
1 81910A Photonic All-parameter Analyzer
10 81600B Tunable Laser Source Family
10 8343xA Broadband Light Sources
4 86142B High Performance Optical Spectrum Analyzer
10 86120C Multi-Wavelength Meter
2 8169A Polarization Controller

>
> MEMS instructional lab

>
10 33220A Function / Arbitrary Waveform Generator, 20 MHz
10 33250A Function / Arbitrary Waveform Generator, 80 MHz
4 E4443A PSA Series Spectrum Analyzer, 3 Hz - 6.7 GHz
10 6010A Autoranging dc Power Supply, 200V, 17A

> Semiconductor instructional lab
>
1 4155C Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer
10 54624A 4-Channel, 100 MHz Oscilloscope
10 34401A Digital Multimeter, 6.5 Digit

Holger Schmidt

  • Items below inserted into wishlist table. -- BobVitale - 09 Dec 2004

Also, if Agilent has any high-speed photodetectors (>=10GHz), that would be nice to have for the 130 lab.

Holger

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Bob Vitale wrote:

>> Prof Schmidt,
>>
>> How about an amplifier instead? There are some nice variable gain
>> RF/microwave amplifiers that Agilent makes.
>> 37dBm is quite high for a signal generator. In my experience they start
>> to get more noisy with higher output powers.
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>>
>> Holger Schmidt wrote:
>>
>
>>> >Hi Bob,
>>> >
>>> >I suggest an RF synthesizer with high output power (~5W).
>>> >
>>> >Best regards,
>>> >Holger

Pak Chan 12/2/04

  • Items below inserted into wishlist table. -- BobVitale - 09 Dec 2004

please:

B4655A FPGA dynamic probe

Prof Wentai Liu

  • Items below inserted into wishlist table. -- BobVitale - 09 Dec 2004

Bob [Forwarded on behalf of Professor Liu],

Bioelectronics Instructional Lab (see attached syllabus)

BIOELECTRONICS INSTRUCTIONAL LAB

N6030A Arbitrary Waveform Generator 4294A Precision Impedance Analyzer, 40 Hz to 110 MHz 4255C/4156C/4157B Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer 4396B Combination Network/Spectrum/Impedance Analyzer (500Mhz-1.8Ghz) E3631A -34A Series Programmable Power Supplies

Logic Analyzer: 1660 Series Logic Analyzer To 136 ch, 500 MHz timing, 100 MHz state 1670A/D Series Logic Analyzers To 136 CH, 500 MHz timing, 100 MHz state 1670G Series Logic Analyzers To 136 CH, 500 MHz timing, 150 MHz state E9340A Logic Analyzer 34 Channels, PC-Hosted

RF INSTRUCTIONAL LAB

RF spectrum ana.( Any model, PSA Series, 8560EC Series, ESA Series) RF network ana.( Any model, ENA series, PNA series, 8753, 8720) RF signal generator( Any model, E4400 /20/21/22B, 8648 series, 8644B series, 8664A/65B series) RF Power meter( Any model, N1911AP SINGLE CH. or N1912AP DOUBLE CH.) RF Noise figure meter (Any model)

Katia Obraczka

  • Items below inserted into wishlist table. -- BobVitale - 09 Dec 2004

Here's my wish list. This equipment would be useful in CE257 and CE 259 (new class on sendor networks).

1) oscilloscope: - 54642D
2) 3458A Digital Multimeter, 8.5 Digit

Let me know if you need any additional info. If we get one of each would be great. 2 of each would be awesome!

thanks!

katia

Gabriel Elkaim 12/3/04

Hi Bob,

The CE-118 class could use as many of the 546xD mixed signal o-scopes as they'd be willing to give, as well as the N2758A CAN Trigger module, again, any number of the 168xD Logic analysers, and any of their 60xxA bench power supplies (20V max is fine, 60V would be better, but I'll take anything), a few of the 33220A function generators would be great, as well.

Again:

mixed-mode o-scopes (546xD)
logic analyzer (168xD)
bench power supplies (60xxA)
Arbitrary waveform generators (33220A)

As many as they'd give (I can use 10-20 of each). They would be used for the CE-118 lab as well as future follow-on courses.

Thanks, Gabriel

Claire Gu

From: Claire Gu [mailto:claire@soe.ucsc.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:17 AM
To: rvitale@soe.ucsc.edu
Subject: Re: Requested: Wish list from Agilent Technologies

Bob,
Just some small items for EE 130 lab:

Fiber Cable HFBR-RTD010
Polishing Kits HFBR-4935 End tip polishing
LED HLMP-4101

Thanks. Claire

Steve Petersen

S.C. Petersen wrote:

>Wish list:
>
>1. 5 additional 8590E 1.8GHz general purpose spectrum analyzers (good to
>1kHz resolution bandwidth).
>2. Several (one or more) decent logic analyzers capable of looking at
>32 -bit systems. We have no modern units, and those we have are too old,
>too slow, have now memory depth etc. Sorry I don't have a unit # at this
>time.
>
>-Steve

Ken Pedrotti

> From: Ken Pedrotti [mailto:pedrotti@soe.ucsc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:25 AM
> To: Bob Vitale
> Subject: Re: Requested: Wish list from Agilent Technologies
>
>
> Ok Bob here are some suggestions:
>
> Most useful:
> E5052A Signal Source Analyzer
> http://library.tm.agilent.com/press/05072004_E5052A/
> Plus down converters and harmonic mixers to extend frequency range.
>
> 50 GHz cal kit for the 8510c VNA that we have, of these the last is
> probably the most appropriate
>
> 85056K Mechanical Calibration Kit, 2.4 mm & 2.92 mm
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536895298.536879698/pd.html
>
> N4693A 2-port MW Electronic Calibration Module, 2.4mm
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536895298.536882545/pd.html
>
> 85056A Standard Mechanical Calibration Kit, 2.4 mm
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536895298.536879548/pd.html
>
> We should also get the proper cal kit for the other VNA that the
> RF lab has.
>
> 85133F Flexible Cable Set, 2.4 mm for our 8510C
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536895303.536879578/pd.html
>
> A good high speed realtime sampling scope:
> 54852A Infiniium Oscilloscope and InfiniiMax 1131A Probing System is a
> possibility. We have fast samplers but nothing highspeed and realtime
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-11496.536894341/pd.html
> Others are possible as well. such as the
> 54855A Infiniium Oscilloscope and InfiniiMax 1134A Probing System
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-14311.536882577/pd.html
>
> A good RF signal generator with modulation capability, very low output
> power for sensitivity measurements, variety of modulations etc. They
> have lots of these, I'd have to study this more.
>
> Do we have a good frequency counter?
>
> An RF "sniffer"
>
> What do we have to characterize antennas?
>
> 33250A Function / Arbitrary Waveform Generator, 80 MHz
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-11457.536881980/pd.html
>
> 86117A Dual 50 GHz Electrical Module-this would allow us to use our
> other 81000 mainframe.
> http://we.home.agilent.com/cgi-bin/bvpub/agilent/Product/cp_Produc
> t.jsp?NAV_ID=-536891705.536883122.00&LANGUAGE_CODE=eng&CONTENT_KEY
> =103722&ID=103722&COUNTRY_CODE=US
>
> We at last glance did not have a good high speed logic analyzer, this is
> complex to configure and specify:
> See: Logic Analyzer Products
> http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536893742.0/pc.html
>
> EDA Software:
>
> Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS)
> http://eesof.tm.agilent.com/products/adsoview.html
>
> Agilent RF Design Environment
> http://eesof.tm.agilent.com/products/rfde.html
>
> 85190A IC-CAP Parameter Extraction and Device Modeling Software
> http://eesof.tm.agilent.com/products/85190a-a.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken

Bob Vitale 12/10/04

26 E35361A power supplies
Item 45 on the BELS wish list database (not this Twiki).
Cost is $1238 each; $1003 extra for 5yr calibration program
These were requested last year under BELS PR 2004-263.
Funds from 2003-04 were liened ($21,682 for 21 total). We really wanted 26 power supplies but forced to shoot for fewer due to budget realities.

34 each 33401A Digital Multimeters
Items 49 & 34 on the BELS wish list database (not this Twiki)
Cost estimated at $1,000 each
Request in 2003-04 under BELS PR 2004-252
10 for BE115 Sr Projects lab There are no multimeters in this lab at present. 24 for BE113 Circuits lab This would replace 24 older Fluke Multimeters

Bob Vitale 2/1/05

Robert,

I just wanted to get our dibs in on a RT o'scope. We definitely need something like the HP 54854A. I have been having a dialog with Audrey Kwong at Agilent who is their University person. 877-471-8407

Also, Who is our Tektronix rep?

With best regards,

-BOb Robert Dahlgren Postgraduate Researcher UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering www.soe.ucsc.edu/~rdahlgren Room BE 261 rdahlgren@soe.ucsc.edu Ofc (831) 459-4283 Home (408) 437-9292 Lab (831) 459-3972