Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Facilities

The VCU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is located on the Monroe Park Campus. The department has 11,000 square feet of academic laboratory space and 10,000 feet of research laboratory space. Students and faculty in the department have access to state-of-the-art laboratories outfitted with the latest equipment.

Facility name

Equipment

Digital systems prototyping laboratory (Room 211)

  • Pace surface mount rework station
  • Tektronix and Agilent analog and mixed signal oscilloscopes
  • Power supplies, signal generators and Multimeters
  • Tektronix TLA 720 Logic analyzer and pattern generator
  • Electronic & Digital Design (Room 237 and 245)

 

  • HP 54602B 150MHz oscilloscope  (6).
  • HP 54600B 100MHz oscilloscopes (18)
  • Multimeters Agilent 34401A 61/2 digital (24)
  • Agilent 33120A  Function waveform generators  15MHz (24)
  • HP E3630A triple output DC power supplies (24)
  • Proto Board PB-503 (CADET) (30)
  • Tennma 72-7770 DMM (24)
  • MindstormsKit (28)
  • HP  4194A Impedance/Gain-phase analyzer (1)

Device test and characterization laboratory (Room 241)

  • Agilent 4155C semiconductor parameter analyzer (2)
  • HP 4285A precision LCR meter
  • HP 4156B precision semiconductor parameter analyzer
  • Westbond 5456E wire bonder
  • Agilent E3856A PNA series network analyzer
  • MKS instruments vacuum training system
  • Cascade Microtech Summit 1200 Probe Station
  • Cascade Microtech CPS Resistivity Test Fixture
  • PC Workstations (2)

Digital systems design laboratory (Room 337)

  • HP 54620A Logic Analyzer –(13)
  • Agilent 54622A Oscilloscope (1)
  • HP 54600B Oscilloscope (1)
  • Tektronix CFG280 Function Generator (2)
  • QET DC Motor Control (7)
  • PC stations (18)

 

Computer classroom (Room 235)

  • DELL E-Series desktop computers  (27)

Electronic design automation laboratory (Room 213)

  • SunBlade 1500 Solaris workstations with 24 inch HD monitors (22)

First Floor Wright-Virginia Microelectronics Center Clean Room, Rms. 150-172

  • Veeco Dektak 150 Stylus Profilometer
  • Veeco Wyko NT1100 Optical Profilometer
  • Veeco Nanoscope 3D AFM
  • Angstrom Advanced PhE-101 Ellipsometer
  • Hitachi TM-3000 Electron Microscope
  • Nikon LV-100 Optical Microscope
  • MRC 603 D.C. Sputtering System
  • Systems Design and Fab Custom E-beam Evaporator
  • Cambridge Nanotech Savannah 200 Atomic Layer Deposition System
  • Edwards Auto 306 Thermal Evaporator
  • Universal Systems 6-F Wet Bench (4)
  • Bruce Technologies 4-H Oxidation/Doping Furnaces
  • Filmetrics FX-150 Thin Film Measurement
  • Oxford Instruments Plasmalab 80Plus Plasma Etcher
  • Universal Systems 4-F Resist Spinner Hood
  • Universal Systems 4-F Resist Spinner Hood
  • QL Model 30 Oven
  • Fisher Scientific 285A Vacuum Oven
  • PlasmaEtch PE-100 Plasma Etcher
  • Nikon LV-100 Optical Microscope (2)
  • Karl Suss MA-56 Mask Aligner (2)
  • Heidelberg Instruments Micro-PG Pattern Generator
  • Sun Sunblade 150 Unix Work Station
  • Electromask CC 250 Pattern Generator