Project Description
My lab is exploring a variety of techniques for rapid prototyping of electronic circuits that assure first time success, quickly and at low cost. Some of these leverage commercial vendors and some of these leverage methods fully contained in-house.
Each of four students will select a specific circuit to design and build using some combination of solderless breadboards, circuit boards fabricated by printing conductive ink traces, small circuit board modules from a fab shop, circuit board design using Altium and fab and assembly manually or by an outside fab shop.
There are a number of new fab shops offering assembly services. We will explore some of these new vendors to determine what it would take for a complete turn key, virtual circuit board fab process.
All circuits will be tested and debugged and fully characterized. The end result will be a fully functional working circuit created through a specific process. These experiments will explore the relative merits of each technique.
Special Requirements
Student candidates should have completed at least ECEN 2250, and preferably completed ECEN 2270. Or, they should have equivalent circuit building experience. An interest in analog electronics is a plus.
Contact
- Eric Bogatin (faculty)
- Tyler Davidson (graduate student)