Hardware
Hardware Resources
The Srivastava Senior Design Lab has a wide variety of hardware available for use in projects, including microcontrollers, DSP boards, LINX RF transmitters and receivers, GPS units, webcams and more. These things can all be checked out from you TA for use on your project. See below for more details, and check out the links above.
- Hardware Inventory of the lab (not guaranteed to be current)
Development Boards
Intel Galileo Development Boards
The lab has 25 Intel Galileo Development Boards available for checkout. The following links are useful resources for working with these boards:Microcontrollers
PIC Microcontrollers
The lab has a number of PIC16F877A microcontrollers available for use in projects. It is understandable that wiring errors might happen, so each student is allowed to burn out a maximum of two PICs. They are programmed in a simplified C instruction set and are used to simplify design and perform IO with ease. Check the PIC Tutorial for more information.
BASIC Stamp Microcontrollers
The BASIC Stamp is a simple, tiny microcontroller with serial communications abilities, programmed in BASIC. This makes it ideal for simple applications where I/O speed is not critical, and the complexity of the HC12 is not needed.- BASIC Stamp resources
- Parallax, makers of BASIC Stamp
- BasicX, makers of a better, pin-compatible unit
DSPs
TI TMS320C54x DSPs
We have several C54x DSPs available for checkout (if demand is high, sharing a DSP with another group may be needed). Check out these resources for more information:
- ECE420 Home Page (lots of useful DSP reference info)
- TI's DSP Developer's Village
- DSP Store
- EG3's DSP Page
- ChipCenter's DSP Page
TI TMS320C6713 DSP
We have one TMS320C6713 (16 Mb) Floating Point DSP that was graciously donated by TI. The board is in the TA cabinet and is available for checkout.LINX RF modules
We have a number of LINX transmitters and receivers available in the lab for RF projects, with a choice of the LC Series (315 or 418 MHz) or the HP series (902-928 MHz band).
GPS kits
We have 2-3 Garmin 12 XL GPS receivers. The Garmin units are equipped with a serial communication port and can be interfaced with microcontrollers or computers to provide information on position (lat, long, altitude, time) and velocity (differentiation of position). We also have one equivalent Motorola kit, and another kit by Ashtech (Eval and development kit, 990285). There are antennas on the roof of EL with wires into the lab so that data can be acquired while in the building (for testing purposes). The antennas can be accessed through connectors in the back left corner of the lab, by the far computer.
- Garmin's web site