To all students

Dear Circuits Lab, Electronic I Lab, and Electronic II Lab students

Welcome to the Lab.  We look forward to successful and meaningful experiences in your class.

For Circuits Lab Student, if you haven’t done so, please go to www.studica.com/fiu and purchase your very own NI myDAQ.  NI myDAQ is a low-cost portable data acquisition device that uses NI LabVIEW-based software instruments, allowing you to measure and analyze real-world signals.  NI myDAQ is ideal for exploring electronics and taking sensor measurements.  NI myDAQ comes equipped with all your electronic laboratory equipment needs.  It includes, Digital Multimeter, Function Generator, Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, and much more.

You can download NI myDAQ’s User Guide and Specification using this link.

https://circuits-lab.eng.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MyDAQTutorial_Final.pdf

For every student, we recommend you to visit https://circuits-lab.eng.fiu.edu/ to look for the laboratory experiments.  We recommend you to bring your laptop to the laboratory.

The list of parts was also on the website to let you know what you need to purchase for the lab.  We recommend that you get your parts on time.

If you need additional help, please contact Mrs. Xiang Li (Xiang.Li@fiu.edu), Oscar Silveira (silveiro@fiu.edu), or Prof. Gustavo Roig (Gustavo.roig@fiu.edu).

You can purchase parts and components at

Digi-key

Jameco

Mouser

Newark

Radio Shack

In addition to the above resources, you can also contact your FIU-IEEE Non-Profit student chapter at ieee.fiusb@gmail.com.  They will also be selling the parts needed for the lab.

Here is the link where you can download PSPICE 9.1 student version.  Take care that when you install the software, you have to install Schematic as well as the Orcad.  We also recommend you to download the free trial student verion of Multisim.  This is a very important tools for you.  If you purchase NI myDAQ using the link above, MultiSIM ver.12 is included in the package.

Wish you the very best.

Best regard.

Gustavos Roig