About the Labs

Labs will meet in room 5080 ECEB. They consist of three-hour lab sections. Students are expected to attend the lab section for which they have registered. Students are expected to read the laboratory assignment instructions and complete the prelab activities before coming to classes with laboratory sessions. To use the computers in the laboratory students must first choose an Active Directory password at http://accounts.ad.uiuc.edu.

Laboratory Assignments

 

Week#

Tuesday

Thursday

Lab#

Due

Prep

Task_description

1

9/05/17

9/07/17

1

NA

None

Spectral measurements, RF signals

2

9/12/17

9/14/17

2

Lab 1 report

TBA

Component impedance measurement

3

9/19/17

9/21/17

3

NA

TBA

Quiz 1/2; AM/FM Modulation

4

9/26/17

9/28/17

3

Lab 2 report

TBA

Mixer characterization, spurious response

5

10/03/17

10/05/17

4

Lab 3 report

TBA

Quiz 3; Crystal measurement and modeling

6

10/10/17

10/12/17

4

NA

Review AloSim3.m

Crystal Colpitts Oscillator

7

10/17/17

10/19/17

5

Lab 4 report

TBA

Quiz 4;  PCB layout

8

10/24/17

10/26/17

6

completed PCB .brd file

TBA

VCO Construction and Measurement

9

10/31/17

11/02/17

6

NA

TBA

VCO Measurement

10

 11/07/17 11/09/17

7

Lab 6 report

TBA

Quiz 6; Ceramic filter, matching network

11

 11/14/17 11/16/17

8

NA

TBA

 Broadband amplifier

12

 11/28/17 11/30/17

9

Lab 7 report

Lab 8 report

TBA

Quiz 7/8; FM receiver

13

 12/05/17 12/07/17

9

NA

TBA

Receiver performance, extra (TBA)

14

12/12/17

  

 

All sections: lab 9 report due Thursday, Dec. 12th, uploaded to Compass by end of day

TBA

optional Open Lab session (10-11am)