Basic Hardware Laboratory

 In the Basic Hardware Laboratory, students are introduced to hands-on design and implementation of basic digital and logic circuits. Here, they are introduced to various equipment(s) and simulation softwares like LogiSim to enable them to grasp the understanding and knowledge required for the subject. Gradually, they are trained on microprocessor kits (both 8085/86) and microcontrollers paving a way for implementing embedded system design and implementation.

 a) Equipment Details:

Sl. No. Equipment Details Quantity
1 Desktop Computer 05
2 Digital Circuit Development Kit 46
3 UPS – 7.5 KVA 1
4 IC Tester 2
5 Oscilloscope (Analog) 4
6 Oscilloscope (Digital) 1
7 Function Generator 2
8 FPGA Boards 10
9 Digital Multimeter 5
10 Multiple/Fixed Power Supply 2/2
11 8085 Kit/8086 Kit Microprocessors 2/4
12 8052 microcontrollers 30
13 Arm 7 Embedded Microcontroller Kit 1 set
14 Arduino Uno 2
15 Raspberry Pi 2
16 Various Sensors – temperature, moisture, motion, colour, etc. 1 set
17 Projector (BenQ) 1

  b) Types of Experiments Conducted/Performed:

Sl. No. Experiments
1 Familiarization of the Digital Logic kit, LogiSim simulator and handling of ICs w.r.t. their pin configurations through verification of their truth tables.
2 Measurement of rise time and fall time, gate delays, etc.
3 Experimentation on the characteristics of gates in negative and in positive logic.
4 Multilevel NAND/NOR implementation of Boolean functions.
5 Design and implementation of combinational circuits – coder/decoder, MUX/deMUX.
6 Design and implementation of sequential circuits— flip-flops to highlight pitfalls and remedy, synchronous counter, and its implementation, register to register serial/parallel data transfer, etc.
7 Programming on Microprocessor kits.
8 Interfacing and control of various peripherals such as LEDs, 7-segment displays, LCDs, Keypad, ADC, etc.
9 Taking Sensor data, conversion to digital and manipulating and displaying result on displays using the microcontroller

  c) Open-source tools/software used:

Name of tool/software Utility
Logisim For CO202-DLD (BTech-3), simulation of logic circuits
Proteus and Keil uVisio For CO306-Embedded Systems(Btech-6), electronic design automation
Scilab and Praat software For CO513-Fundamentals of Speech Processing(Btech-7,Mtech-3, MCA-3) for speech processing