Miscellaneous

Lab Equipment

• Getting Started with the Oscilloscope - Our staff's zoom recording walking you through the basics of your scope
• Agilent InfiniiVision 3000-X Series Manual - Complete manual for the Agilent oscilloscopes in lab, with handy quick reference at the top.
• XYZs of Oscilloscopes - Tektronix's guide to oscilloscopes, including the new digital phosphor scopes in the 6.115 lab.

Useful Tools: Schematics

• ExpressSCH and ExpressPCB 7.0.2 for XP/2000/NT/Vista/7 - Schematic drawing and circuit layout software (9.72 MB)
• ExpressSCH Custom Components for 6.115 - In WinXP, unzip this file to
  • C:\Program Files\ExpressPCB\SchComponents_Custom
  Location may vary in other operating systems. Some other places to try are:
  • C:\Program Files\ExpressPCB\SchComponents_Library
  • C:\Users\your_username\Documents\ExpressPCB\SchComponents_Custom

• ExpressSCH Custom Components for 6.115 Vol. 2
• 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.

Useful Tools: Editors

• Programmer's Notepad 2 v0.6.1 - Text editor that can be used for 8051 assembly and PIC C code. Students have found this useful in the past, but we don't offer any support or guarantees, so "use at your own risk".

Peeping ROM Camera

• Peeping Rom - User's Manual (pdf)
• Peeping Rom - Matlab files (zip)