MADE in WEL

Hardware required for laboratory courses at WEL is typically designed and manufactured in-house. This tradition has been in place for more than 10 years, and numerous students and staff have participated in developing and benefiting from using such hardware for courses and R&D projects.

XEN 10

Product Developers: Vidur Shah, Mahesh B, Maheshwar M, Amit S

Xen 10 is an ALTERA MAX10 FPGA development board for advanced digital design experiments and R&D projects.

PicoIRIS

Product Developer: Ankur Agarwal

Lab-in-a-box with oscilloscope, function generator and power supply functionality in a single board, with USB and Bluetooth connectivity for operation using a laptop computer.

QMagPi

QMagPi (Quantum Magnetometer with PI control) is a compact and portable magnetometer based on an ensemble of NV centers.
It was developed at PQuest lab in collaboration with WEL

IQ Modulator

Product Developers: Manu T S, Saurabh A, Maheshwar M

Portable IQ transmitter board (373MHz - 1.6GHz) for illustration of communication systems concepts

PT-51

Product Developers: Maheshwar Mangat, Geetanjali Shinde

Pt-51 is a 8051-based development board designed for introducing students to microprocessor architecture

Custom developed
hardware

Application specific PCB development

Staff and students at WEL work closely with students at various labs in the Department of Electrical Engineering, e.g. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) lab, Photonics and Quantum Enabled Sensing Technology (P-Quest) lab etc. on a variety of application specific electronics system development.

Some examples of recently developed and ongoing systems include an FPGA-based smart structural health monitoring (SHM) system for guided wave ultrasonics with edge deployment of machine learning models, high density EEG recording system powered by RFSoC for low-latency feature extraction and classification of events of interest in hardware from raw time-domain signals, portable quantum sensing systems

Know-how and IP for prototyping

Resources for rapid prototyping

Staff and students at WEL have built a vast collection of intellectual property, resources, and technical content for various development platforms and prototyping kits, utilizing open-source resources.

This includes introductory guides for project development and prototyping of custom digital systems using the PYNQ-Z2 board with a Xilinx XC7Z020 SoC.

Other examples include Internet of Things platforms with Texas Instruments CC3235SF Wi-Fi-enabled ARM Cortex-M4 MCU and prototyping materials for the STM32 family of ARM Cortex-M series microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics, along with Raspberry Pi Pico.

Additionally, WEL has assembled a substantial amount of verified content and reference designs covering various subjects such as analog front-end and instrumentation, embedded systems, wireless connectivity, and human-machine interfaces (HMI).