The Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory - Lab A

The undergraduate teaching laboratory is located on the third floor of the building and is used for many of the basic laboratory experiments. The lab has fifty two work stations and a fully equipped instructional area. Each station is complete with a Digital Storage Oscilloscope, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Digital Multimeter, a multi output Power Supply and a Computer. All the instrumentation can be controlled, where necessary by the computer, via a GPI Bus and waveforms can be retrieved and analysed using installed software such as LabView or Agilent Intuilink. Additional software, and the necessary hardware, allows the programming and testing of the current range of microcontrollers and FPGA devices. Multisim and Orcad software provide students with a schematic entry tool and spice simulation. All of these stations are complete with soldering facilities which are fully vented to comply with current regulations. An additional four stations are used by Machine Drive experiments.