6.131 Power Electronics Laboratory - Fall 2024

Miscellaenous

Lab Equipment

• Getting Started with the Oscilloscope - Our staff's zoom recording walking you through the basics of the scope.
• XYZs of Oscilloscopes - Tektronix's guide to oscilloscopes, including the new digital phosphor scopes in the 6.131 lab.
• Notes on the Agilent MSO's - Some brief comments on exciting features of the Agilent mixed-signal oscilloscopes installed in Spring 2014.
• Agilent InfiniiVision 3000-X Series Manual - Complete manual for the Agilent oscilloscopes in lab, with handy quick reference at the top.

PCB Templates

• p5-perf.jpg and p8_tt2.jpg are the images we used to create your layout cards.

Useful Tools

• ExpressPCB 7.8.0 - 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.