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 California State University, Fullerton

Computer Engineering Labs

VLSI Lab

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The lab was recently upgraded with state-of-the-art workstations and commercial EDA tools with a generous grant from the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The facility in this lab will not only support undergraduate and graduate Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) courses, but will also be a training and research facility in advanced VLSI design. Using this facility, microchips can be potentially designed with submicron feature sizes and with clocks in the Gigahertz frequency range. This new facility is located in Room 404 of the Computer Science Building.

The lab is equipped with twenty state-of-the-art workstations (Sun Ultra 40 M2) with the following features:

  • Two dual-core AMD Opteron processors
  • Supports 32-bit and 64-bit applications
  • 4 GB DDR2
  • 15,000rpm SAS HDD
  • 24.1-inch TFT LCD Monitor with wide viewing angle

We have a wide range of award winning commercial VLSI tools available for student use including:

  • Cadence analog, mixed signal and RF tools
  • Cadence ASIC tools
  • Mentor Graphics Custom Design & Simulation tools

Microcontroller Lab

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The facilities in this laboratory supports undergraduate and graduate courses in use of advanced microcontrollers targeted for embedded applications. The lab has a wide range of hardware and software development tools available for the students. The lab is equipped with 20 stations with Pentium 4/ Pentium D processors, 1 projector, 2 printers, 25 68HC12 microcontroller development boards (DRAGON12TM HCS12), 8 HP and Tektronix logic analyzers and digital logic test boxes.

We have a wide range of tools available for student use including:

  • MultiSim 10.1
  • ModelSim SE
  • Xilinx ISE
  • Freescale CodeWarrior
  • LabView 8.2
  • Quartus II 7.0
  • Matlab 7.5
  • MicroWind
  • PSpice 10.5

FPGA and Digital Electronics Lab

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The facilities in this laboratory support undergraduate and graduate courses in use of digital logic circuit design and, programmable logic circuits (FPGA) design. The lab is equipped with 21 stations with Pentium 4/ Pentium D processors, 1 projector, 2 printers, National Instruments DAQ, PCI-GPIB cards, and 25 Spartan 3-200K system boards (S3BOARD, Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA w/ twelve 18-bit multipliers, 216Kbits of block RAM, running at 200 MHz internal clock speeds).

We have a wide range of tools available for student use including:

  • Leonardo Spectrum
  • MultiSim 10.1
  • ModelSim SE
  • Xilinx ISE
  • Freescale CodeWarrior
  • LabView 8.2
  • Quartus II 7.0
  • Matlab 7.5
  • MicroWind
  • PSpice 10.5