Laboratory

The IC-SEED Laboratory is a research environment dedicated to electronic circuit design, embedded system development, FPGA-based digital design and microprocessor applications. Our laboratory supports every step of the hardware development process, from design and simulation to printed circuit board fabrication, and from prototyping to measurement and testing.

IC-SEED Laboratory overview

Workstation

Work Areas

  • Computer workstations for design, simulation and programming
  • Equipped workbenches for building and testing electronic circuits
  • Anti-static work mats and organized component storage
Electronics workbench

Measurement and Test Equipment

  • Digital and analog oscilloscopes
  • Adjustable DC power supplies
  • Function generator
  • Digital multimeters
  • Soldering stations and soldering equipment
Development boards

FPGA and Microcontroller Development Boards

  • Digilent Nexys 4 and Basys 3 FPGA development boards (AMD Xilinx Artix-7)
  • STM32 Nucleo microcontroller development boards
  • Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller development board
  • Arduino microcontroller development boards
  • Various sensor, display and communication modules and electronic components
MTS-86C training kit
ESA 86/88-3 training kit

Microprocessor Training Kits

  • 8086-based MTS-86C and ESA 86/88-3 microprocessor training kits
  • Low-level programming in assembly language
  • Memory and I/O interfacing; ADC/DAC applications with 8255, 8253 and 8251 peripherals
Breadboard prototype

Prototyping and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Fabrication

  • Rapid circuit prototyping on breadboards
  • PCB fabrication with copper-clad boards, chemical etching and drilling tools
  • Soldering and assembly equipment

Software Tools

  • AMD (Xilinx) Vivado – FPGA design and synthesis
  • STM32CubeIDE and Arduino IDE – embedded software development
  • MATLAB – modeling, simulation and data analysis
  • LTspice and Proteus – circuit simulation
  • Altium Designer and KiCad – schematic and PCB design