Aurora Engineering College
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Electronics and Communication Engineering Laboratories

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

List Of Ece Laboratories For B.Tech (ECE)

S.No
Particulars
1 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS LAB
2 BASIC SIMULATION LAB
3 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS & PULSE CIRCUITS LAB
4 ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS LAB
5 IC APPLICATIONS & HDL SIMULATION LAB
6 MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLERS LAB
7 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LAB
8 MICROWAVE ENGINEERING AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS LAB
9 ECAD & VLSI LAB

Electronic Devices And Circuits Laboratory

This Laboratory is specifically meant for II year students of under graduate course, deals with the experiments on Electronics Devices and Circuits. Every bench is equipped with a dual trace oscilloscope, dual Power Supply and a signal generator. The objective of this course is to study various electronic devices and to design various electronic circuits like Amplifiers and regulated power supplies. This course is considered as foundation course for electronics and electrical engineers. The subjects to be studied in higher semesters require thorough knowledge on electronic devices and circuits.

Basic Simulation Laboratory

Research and development over the past 30 years has lead to significant advances in the fields of Signals , Image Processing, and Communication systems. The various concepts of the subject are arranged logically and executed using a simple user friendly language like MATLAB.

This lab is designed for subjects like Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing and Communication systems. MATLAB 7.1 software version is user friendly with enhanced features and improved tools related to Digital Signal Processing and compatible to interface Digital Signal Processing processors. Working with MAT LAB will enable the students to enhance their concepts in basics of Signals and Systems and its applications. This lab consists of programs like signal generation and their operations, convolution, correlation, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms and Z-transforms etC...

Electronics Circuits And Pulse Circuits Laboratory

Almost all electronic circuits comprise of amplifiers, regulators and power supplies etc. This lab course meant for exposing the students to various types of amplifiers which include CE single stage, multistage, tuned and power amplifiers, oscillators and their characteristics. SPICE is very popular software for analyzing electronic circuits. The experiments on Analog ICs, like Operational Amplifiers, Timers, and Phase lock loops etc., and their applications are being studied. The experiments based on pulse circuits are performed using IC trainers and component development systems are provided on every table. PSPICE can be run on personal computers, it widens the scope for the integration of computer aided simulation of circuits and implementing the same in the hardware lab also. This approach has the advantage that the students can compare the results which are obtained in hardware lab with the results of the SPICE models.

Analog Communication Laboratory

Communication is the core area of ECE and constitute the largest applications in use today. One cannot imagine today's world without communication engineering. Communication lab helps students to acquire knowledge about more widely used Analog communication concepts. Communication is the basic process of exchanging information .In today's world there are number of modern communication system in use, which include radio telephony and telegraphy, broad casting, point to point and mobile communications and telemetry.

In analog modulation, the characteristics of carrier signal vary with in accordance with the instantaneous value of modulating signal. In this analog modulation ,Students can learn the AM, FM and PM techniques. This laboratory intended to make students understand the use of Analog communication systems in the field of communication. Latest equipments like Digital storage oscilloscopes, Spectrum analyzers are available in the Department for accurate analysis of the signal.

IC Applications & Hdl Simulation Lab

Integrated circuits are the present state of art of IC Technology. It is one of the core area of ECE and constitutes the largest applications in use today. IC Technology has entered into every part of today's world. Today, a single chip can contain tens of millions of transistors and can be programmed to create a system -on-a-chip -that, using technology of past, would have required hundreds of discrete chip containing millions of individual gates & flip-flop.This laboratory is intended to make students understand the use of different linear and digital IC.

In this laboratory the student will become familiar with various linear ICs such as UA741 and SE/NE 555. They will understand the applications of the UA741 operations amplifier like adder, subtractor and comparator etc. And also the various applications of SE/NE 555 like Monostable operations and Schmitt trigger. In addition to the above they will become familiar with various voltage regulators and sample and hold circuit.It also deals with verifying the functionality of the various Digital ICs of 74 series TTL ICs such as D Flip-flop (74LS74), Decade counter (74LS90), multiplexer ICs and RAM ICs etc.

Second part deals with FPGA advantage software for VHDL and Verilog implementation of digital circuits starting with basic gates to FSM models . The latest version FPGA advantage software is used as front-end tool.

Microprocessor Laboratory

Microprocessor technology is an exciting, challenging and growing field which will pervade industry for decades to come. Ever since, the invent of first microprocessor to the latest, microprocessors have been used in different applications. This practical course of microprocessor and microcontrollers presents an integrated approach to hardware and software in the context of 8086 microprocessor and 8051 microcontroller.

The purpose of this laboratory is to enable students to write efficient programs in assembly language for 8086 microprocessor and to assemble and execute them using TASM software and as well as in 8086 microprocessor trainer kits. Students will learn techniques for interfacing the 8086 microprocessor to peripheral devices like ADC, DAC and stepper motor. As a result, they themselves can design and develop various interesting applications involved with microprocessor as well as complete microprocessor based system.Microcontrollers are being extensively used in today's industrial environment and research and development. Therefore, students will learn to write basic assembly language programs and interfacing programs for 8051 microcontroller also.

Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

The area of digital signal processing has advanced rapidly over the last four decades. This advancement is attributed to the progress in digital computer technology and integrated circuit fabrications. There are many reasons why the digital processing of an analog signal is preferred over the signal processing directly in analog domain. The advantages of DSP are common to many digital systems and include: i) Versatility- Digital systems can be reprogrammed for other applications (at least where programmable DSP chips are used), They can be ported to different hardware . ii)Repeatability- Digital systems can be easily duplicated and iii) Accuracy-Digital systems provide much better accuracy requirement. Tolerances in the analog components make it much difficult for the system designer to control the accuracy of an analog processing system. DSP is used in a very wide variety of applications.

This lab introduces students to DSP design and analysis techniques that are core knowledge for DSP engineers, and which serve as solid grounding for advanced level work in DSP. The lab aims at teaching the key DSP concepts, such as overview of discrete time signal and systems in time domain, and frequency domain, computation of Fourier transform and its efficient implementation, Discrete Fourier transform and Fast Fourier transform, the implementation of digital filters, FIR Filter design and IIR Filter Design, Multi rate signal processing techniques, Impulse response estimation, to implement the DSP algorithms in software, an introduction to real-time DSP requirements by exposing them to the use of some educational DSP kits(TMS320C63713) with real time capability, which will help students get acquainted with the programming of these devices and some typical hardware and functions found in practical applications such as I/O interface cards (A/D, D/A, I/O filters), types of DSP processors and their different characteristics, interrupts, etc.

Microwave Engineering and Digital Communications Laboratory

The laboratory is intended to make students understand the use of microwave components and digital communication systems in the field of communication.

Microwave engineering lab is primarily concerned with measurement of performance indices of transmission systems. In this laboratory course students will be trained to make measurements on microwave bench setups excited by microwave sources. This experience enables students to work on radar transmitter and receivers and modern day satellite communication links. Performance indices like VSWR, attenuation, directivity and losses etc. are measured and compared for different transmission systems. The applications of the measurements made in Microwave and communication labs are broadly in the areas of radar systems, satellite communications at microwave frequency in X-band.

In digital communication part, the characteristics of carrier signal variation with the digital input data is studied and implemented. In the digital modulation, we can learn the digital binary techniques like ASK, FSK, PSK, DPSK and pulse modulation techniques DM and PCM.

Ecad & Vlsi Laboratory

ECAD environments provide the tools for generating a physical representation of the integrated circuit from a high-level HDL description. The physical representation specifies how a particular part of the integrated circuit will be constructed. At the lowest level it is the photo-mask data necessary to perform the several processing steps. To simplify, a model based on material layers is used. These layers (forming the layout) are afterwards translated into photo-masks. The layout design rules are the link between the circuit designer and the technology constraints which the former must fulfill so that the fabricated integrated circuits may achieve a sufficiently high yield. ECAD tools always provide a Design Rule Checker (DRC) to inform the designer whether they are being correctly considered or not. For integrated circuits with millions of transistors, a circuit-level simulation is not practical and ECAD tools provide logic-level and register level simulators as well. A very important aspect in future integrated circuit design is testability. ECAD frameworks include also tools to support the design for testability.

This Lab provides students with hands on exposure to different ECAD tools like 34 user licensed versions of Tina-Pro, FPGA advantage software for VHDL and Verilog front end designs and The latest Mixed Signal Design Software "Microwind - 3 of 50 user's license supplied by ni2 logic, Pune for performing both Analog and Digital VLSI back end related experiments.