Course Hardware
This is a list of hardware used by Virginia Tech classes
Contents
Laptops
Other various things
Lab-in-a-Box
The Lab-in-a-Box is an introductory electrical engineering project kit and accompanying textbook used for ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory and ECE 3074 AC Circuit Analysis Laboratory. It includes a breadboard called the A&D or "ANDY" board.
PIC
PIC microcontrollers are a relatively popular line of RISC microcontrollers from Microchip Technology. Different toolchains are required to build code between the 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit data size lines. They are used in ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering and ECE 4534 Embedded System Design.
Vellemen PCSGU250
The Velleman PCSGU250 is a PC oscilloscope that was required for various ECE courses during 2011 and 2012. Professionals usually do not recommend buying PC oscilloscopes, instead suggesting Digital Storage Oscilloscopes for the same purpose. It has freely available (but not free) Windows drivers and software, and can be easily used in KVM or VirtualBox. Unfortunately, there is currently no linux support. bwr collected the following libpcap dumps using wireshark:
PICKit 2
The PICKit 2 is a microprocessor programming and debugging peripheral.