Microcomputer Project Laboratory - Spring 2008

Miscellaenous

Lab Equipment

• XYZs of Oscilloscopes - Tektronix's guide to oscilloscopes, including the new digital phosphor scopes in the 6.115 lab.

Useful Tools: Schematics

• ExpressSCH and ExpressPCB 6.1.2 for XP/2000/NT - Schematic drawing and circuit layout software (9.6 MB)
• ExpressSCH and ExpressPCB 6.1.2 for Vista - Schematic drawing and circuit layout software (9.5 MB)
• ExpressSCH Custom Components for 6.115 - Unzip this file to C:\Program Files\ExpressPCB\SchComponents_Custom
• The powerful Eagle schematic and layout software has a free version available for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
• XCircuit - Schematic drawing tools available on Athena (add xcircuit; xcircuit filename.ps &). It produces PostScript output files.
• Circuit_macros - A non-wysiwyg way to draw circuits.

Useful Tools: Editors

• Programmer's Notepad 2 v0.6.1 - Text editor that can be used for 8051 assembly and PIC C code. Students have found this useful in the past, but we don't offer any support or guarantees, so "use at your own risk".