Embedded Systems Design Laboratory
Contact Person: Bryant Gonzaga, Prof. Ken Short
Location: Room 230, Light Engineering
Usage: ESE 380, ESE 381, ESE 440, ESE 441, ESE 475, ESE 499
The Embedded Systems Design Laboratory (ESDL) is devoted to teaching and system design projects involving embedded microprocessor and microcomputer based systems. The primary portion of the laboratory is located in the Light Engineering building, on the second floor, in room 230. A project related area is located in a portion of an adjacent room, room 228.
The ESDL facility is used primarily to support the laboratory portions of two undergraduate courses: ESE-380 and ESE-381, Embedded Microprocessor Systems Design I and II. The main portion of the lab contains 13 student stations, each of which supports a group of 2 students. Each student station is equipped with a networked personal computer (PC), a full function state-of-the-art solderless breadboarding system, a Fluke model 45 dual display digital multimeter, an HP 54603B Digital Storage 28 Oscilloscope, and a variety of other test equipment. Each station also has available a number of specialized microcomputer daughter boards and accessories, along with several industry standard JTAG-ICE debugging units, which collectively provide support for a large number of microcomputer devices and system design projects. Finally, a variety of specialty and custom designed items are available at each of the student stations, based on that semester’s student design project.
The ESDL facility also has available a device programming station that is used in by students enrolled in ESE380, ESE381, ESE475, ESE476, ESE499, and ESE440/441. The programming station enables the programming of SPLDs, CPLDs, EPROMS, microcontrollers, and a large number of other classic and state-of-the-art programmable devices.
Each personal computer of each lab station is networked via a gigabit Ethernet local area network (LAN), providing connectivity to the lab’s Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server. This server is RAID 1 compliant and has eight high capacity high speed SCSI hard drives. At the present time the server is running the Windows Server 2003 network operating system. The laboratory LAN is connected by a dedicated firewall to the campus switched Ethernet network and the Internet. This provides high speed access to a variety of on and off campus computer systems and Websites. This server also supports the DSRPL facility (see below).
The ESDL meets all requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and other mandated safety requirements of the Federal and New York State governments. There is also one wheel-chair accessible student station in the ESDL.