Department Of ECE | Northern University Bangladesh

Lab Facilities for ECE

The unprecedented mobility of knowledge, technology, information and capital has redefined Electronics & Communication Engineering. ECE encompasses a wide variety of specializations and opens the door to many different careers. Our program provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals: circuit analysis, electronics, digital logic design, signal and system and computer systems. Students can choose a variety of specializations, including electronics and VLSI, control systems, telecommunications, computer systems, and microwave engineering. Synergistic environs must be created where both the faculty members and the students can maximize their potentials taking advantages of the resources available. Our program underlines lab work, with more than 30 courses using nouveau equipments in modern laboratories. Our courses are taught to small classes by professors who are established researchers and who bring their leading-edge cognition into the classroom.

Electronics & Communication Engineering Labs:

Electrical Circuit Laboratory:

The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art electronic test equipments. Each laboratory bench is equipped with DC power supplies, function generators, digital/analog oscilloscopes, and dual-display digital multi-meters. This lab will show students the need for a circuit in order to have a flow of electricity. It will also demonstrate Thevenin's Theorem, Norton's Theorem, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's Law, and the equivalent resistance formula to analyze parallel and series-parallel circuits.

Electronics Laboratory:

These laboratories provide opportunities in basic circuit design, analysis and advanced study in feedback, oscillators, filters, and amplifier topologies. They also offer the student the capability to design, build, and test integrated differential and discrete operational amplifiers. These labs are used in the Basic Electrical Engineering, Introduction to Electronics, and Electronics Design courses.

Digital Logic Laboratory:

This lab supports combinational and sequential logic design and also provides the capability to program complex programmable logic devices and field-programmable gate arrays. Students in Digital Logic Design, Fundamentals of Digital Logic, and senior design projects use this lab.

Communication Laboratory:

The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art electronic test equipment used to support Communication Systems by using different analog and digital communication trainers such as AM & FM Transmitters & Receivers, ASK, FSK, QPSK & PSK Modulation & Demodulation, Signal sampling & Reconstruction, Delta & Sigma Modulation & Demodulation, PAM , PPM, PWM, PCM Modulation & Demodulation, TDMA Pulse Code & Amplitude Modulation and Adaptive Delta Modulation & Demodulation.

Signal Processing Laboratory:

This laboratory provides facilities to design, build, and analyze digital filters; data acquisition and digital feedback control systems, and realize signal processing algorithms in hardware. This lab supports the Signals and Systems and Digital Signal Processing.

VLSI Laboratory:

Students and research scholars are involved in the design and analysis of a variety of digital, analog and mixed-signal VLSI systems. High performance computing, signal processing and sensor applications require innovative solutions that may focus on semiconductor device physics, VLSI fabrication technology, circuit design, systems architecture, and/or application. A wide range of engineering and design software tools, including Matlab, PSpice, Micro wind, Orchad 9.2, Quartus and Dsch design package are available in this lab. These are advanced industry standard EDA tools used in design and research worldwide. High profiled FPGA tools are also trying to be used by the faculty members.

Microprocessor Lab:

In the Microprocessor Laboratory, students have access to electronic equipments, computers, and software used in the design, synthesis and testing of microprocessor-based systems such as INTEL 8086. This lab also supports Software and hardware experiments with a microcomputer system, Assembly language programming, simple input/output interfacing, and interrupt processing in microcomputer systems.

Optical Fiber Laboratory:

This lab contains LASER, LED, Photo Detectors, Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers, and other fiber optic communication systems for the generation of optical signals and their transmission through free space and fiber optic cables. Students use positioners, fibers, cleavers, and other optical tools to characterize the propagation of light through optical fibers. Advance Fiber Optic Trainer Kits. 660 and 820 nm Analog and Digital received circuit, LCD, AM Modulator and Demodulator, ASK Modulator and Demodulator, FM Modulator and Demodulator, FSK Modulator and Demodulator, CVSD Encoder and Decoder, Manchester Signal Encoder and Decoder are also used in this lab.

Simulation Lab:

The Simulation Lab contains some personal computers with full network capabilities and is open six days a week (hours of operation vary). Printing and plotting in the lab is available for students majoring in Engineering and Computer Science. Software used for engineering courses is available on the computer systems. This lab supports ORCAD, PSpice, MATLAB & as well as various other simulation softwares.

Industrial Electronics Laboratory:

The Industrial electronics lab consists of different kinds of demo kits starting from SCR characteristics, study kit for D.C motor control using chopper. The lab is equipped with all the power electronic converters, DSP and FPGA based DC and AC Drives, Digital Integrated kits, Power supplies etc. Also ORCAD PSpice and MATLAB simulation software are available to perform simulation of Industrial electronics circuits.

Control Systems Laboratory:

The department has full fledged Control System Laboratory with advanced computing tools like MATLAB, ORCAD software, Servomotor, Closed loop control system etc.. It's also having Internet facilities and also connected to internal Network.

Wireless and Mobile Communication Laboratory:

The Wireless and Mobile Communication lab consists of different kinds of demo kits starting from cellular mobile trainers, Full Duplex Mobile Telecommunication trainers, Condenser Mike and Limiter, Compressor, Pre_emphasis, De_emphasis, Expander, Band-Pass Filter and squelch Circuit, PLL Oscillator, Micom and Key Matrix Control Peripheral Circuits, Half and Full Duplex Transmitting and Receiving Integration and others. This lab supports the Wireless and Mobile Communication System.