Power Electronics Laboratory - Fall 2012

Miscellaenous

Lab Equipment

• XYZs of Oscilloscopes - Tektronix's guide to oscilloscopes, including the new digital phosphor scopes in the 6.131 lab.

PCB Templates

• p5-perf.jpg and p8-tt2.jpg are the images we used to create your layout cards.

Useful Tools

• ExpressPCB 5.4 - Schematic drawing and circuit layout software (9 MB)
• ExpressPCB Custom Components for 6.131 - Unzip this file to C:\Program Files\ExpressPCB\SchComponent_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.