I am a PhD student, we do digital circuit design. Did a tapeout a few months back, now characterizing the designs. All modern lab equipment is hooked up to the network and remote controlled by the PC via SCPI, the old stuff uses RS232 <-> USB converters.
Main setup are 2 B2901BL SMUs 2 E36312 PSU 34470 Multimeter Old Keithley multimeter Old Rohde & Schwarz function generator MSOV334 33GHz scope
Also visible is an Advantest EVA100, but I don’t really use that one. Not a big fan of the GUI interface to set up testing. In the background, a ~30 FPGA cluster for brain simulation is also visible.
Holy cow is that a cool bench. Power supplues, variable transformer with different taps, circuit breaker and outlets! Wonder if its possible to integrate some of that newer equipment into the bench panels?! Well, I see some ideas I want to implement in my bench!
You call that a mess? What isn’t a mess, an empty room? I call it a mess when staff that I try to put on my desk is falling down from the heap that’s already there – then I know that it’s time to dig into it and put everything at places where those things belong.
I just retired from the Keysight R&D lab where we design oscilloscopes (100MHz—110GHz). I always get a kick when I see a high-end scope with impedance adapters on the inputs and a passive probe connected—kind of like driving a formula 1 race car to Starbucks to get coffee, gotta use what you’ve got to get things done.
This looks really cool. What is it all primarily used for?
I am a PhD student, we do digital circuit design. Did a tapeout a few months back, now characterizing the designs. All modern lab equipment is hooked up to the network and remote controlled by the PC via SCPI, the old stuff uses RS232 <-> USB converters.
Main setup are
2 B2901BL SMUs
2 E36312 PSU
34470 Multimeter
Old Keithley multimeter
Old Rohde & Schwarz function generator
MSOV334 33GHz scope
Also visible is an Advantest EVA100, but I don’t really use that one. Not a big fan of the GUI interface to set up testing. In the background, a ~30 FPGA cluster for brain simulation is also visible.
that scope is probably worth more than all the money my parents spent on me in my 22 years
Holy cow is that a cool bench. Power supplues, variable transformer with different taps, circuit breaker and outlets! Wonder if its possible to integrate some of that newer equipment into the bench panels?! Well, I see some ideas I want to implement in my bench!
You call that a mess? What isn’t a mess, an empty room? I call it a mess when staff that I try to put on my desk is falling down from the heap that’s already there – then I know that it’s time to dig into it and put everything at places where those things belong.
It is far more organized than my table right now…
I just retired from the Keysight R&D lab where we design oscilloscopes (100MHz—110GHz). I always get a kick when I see a high-end scope with impedance adapters on the inputs and a passive probe connected—kind of like driving a formula 1 race car to Starbucks to get coffee, gotta use what you’ve got to get things done.
Lol you haven’t seen my workbench. Yours is pristine