FACILITIES ECE LABS
FACILITIES
Dept. of ECE boasts of several state-of-the-art laboratories primarily used for supporting the regular activities carried out by the faculty members and students for their project work. The laboratories located at Dept. of ECE Lab Complex building are
- Electronic Circuits Laboratory
- Communication Lab
- Digital Lab
- Software Lab
- DSP Lab
- Project Lab
- Research Lab
- VLSI Lab
Electronic Circuits Laboratory
The Electronics Circuits Lab caters to the requirement of the students with respect to the following lab 
sessions
- 3rd semester Electronics and Communication Engg. Basic Electronics Lab
- 4th semester Electronics and Communication Engg. Circuits Lab
- 6th semester Electronics and Communication Engg. Linear Integrated Circuits Lab
The lab has all the required equipments to carry out the experiments as per the syllabus as well as a few experiments beyond the syllabus. At a time a batch of 30 students do the experiments. The students are divided into batches of two. Different charts related to the experiments are done in the lab. CROs, Function generators, Digital multimeters, 5 in 1 integrated units with in-built CRO, Power supply, Frequency counter and a Component tester, etc.
Equipments available on the lab are listed below
- Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
- Digital Storage Oscilloscope
- Function Generator, DC Power Supply
- LT Spice Simulation Software
- DC Voltmeter, Ammeter
- Analog and Digital Multimeter
- Rheostat, LCR Meter
- Digital Voltmeter, Logic Analyzer, Power Scope
Experiments Conducted are design, construction and testing of Amplifiers, Oscillators, Regulators and Pulse and Switching circuits using discrete devices.
Communication laboratory has the most priority among the various labs in the curriculum of Electronics and communication engineering students for undergraduate courses. It handles various practical experiments in the field of microwave engineering and optical fiber communication.
The Communication laboratory caters to the regular class work of Communication Engineering - I laboratory of the 5th semester ECE students and Communication Engineering - II lab of the 7th semester ECE students. and Communication Engineering - II laboratory is for various digital modulation methods like ASK, FSK, PSK etc.
Students also use the laboratory for the mini-project, main-project implementations. The Communication laboratory has also in its possession an array of various different devices like Optical Fiber Trainer kit, Microwave Benches, TV Trainer kit, Satellite Communication Trainer kit, PLC Trainer kit.
The test and measuring equipment consists of
- Digitizing and analog CROs
- Function & Pulse generators
- Gunn based Microwave Bench
- Klystron based Microwave Bench
- USB Microwave Power Sensor
- Microwave Passive Components
- Microwave Studio - EM Simulation Software
- OpenEMS, freeware EM Simulation Software
- SDR Kit with GNU Radio Software
- Optical Power Measurement Kit
- Communication Trainer Kit
- Arbitrary Function Generator
- Antenna Pattern Measurement System
Experiments conducted are AM and FM Modulation and Demodulation-Generation and Demodulation of ASK, FSK, QPSK, PAM, PDM, PPM, PCM and DM - TDM. Measurements based on microwave benches, Antenna pattern measurements, Simulation of antennas EM simulation software
8085 and 8086 Microprocessor trainer kits, 8051 Micro-controller trainer kits. Experiments conducted are design, implementation and verification of combinational and sequential circuits- Assembly language programming on 8085 and 8086-Interfacing of memory and I/O devices.
- Simulation of digital circuits using Xilinx ISE Design Suite (student version)
- ICARUS Verilog, FPGA boards (BASYS II)
- Arduino & Raspberry Pi Boards
- Spartan 6
- DSP Boards (TMS320C6748)
Well equiped software lab with multiple operating systems for programming and simution for UG and PG students.
- C Compiler
- Phython
- LTspice
- QUCS (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator)
- 4NEC2 (Antenna Simulation Software)
- MatLab
- Octave (freeware equivalent of Matlab)
- OpenEMS (FDTD based Electro Magnetic simulation software)
Realisation of DSP Algorithms using
- Phyton
- MatLab
- Code Composer Studion
- TMS320C 6748 DSK Kit
The Project Lab supports the development of various interdisciplinary projects, catering specifically to third and fourth-year graduate students. Students are encouraged to utilize the lab's resources during their project hours. Additionally, components and equipment can be issued in their name, enabling further improvisation and enhancement of their projects.
- PCB Fabrication Setup
- PC, Function Generator, Power Supply, CRO
- Arduino UNO, Raspberry Pi 3-B, Node MCU.
- Sensors - Proximity - IR, Ultrasonic, IMU, PiCam, Float switches
- Depth Camera - Intellisense, LoRa module
- Robotic Motor Drives, Stepper Motor, Servo, DC-DC converters
- LiDAR, RPLiDAR
- Solar Panel, Solar Charge Controller
Some of the projects developed.
SLAM LiDAR Depth Map LoRa Water Level Monitoring System
Facilitation of research activities of students and faculties. Currently the following research works are ongoing
- AI based wildlife monitoring system (for Kerala State Forest Department funded by United Nation Development Programme) under the supervion of Dr. Santhosh Kumar S. The system currently in Viripara, Mankulam Forest Division. Two more system are in pipeline for installing at Perumbankuthu and Thattekad Bird Sanctuary
- Asha J, Assistant Professor, GEC Trissur is doing research in weather forecasting under the guidance of Dr. Santhosh Kumar S
- Sanoj Viswasom, Assistant Professor, CET is doing research in field of antennas under the guidance of Dr. Santhosh Kumar S
- Viji R, Assistant Professor, CET is doing research in object tracking under the guidance of Dr. Santhosh Kumar S
The lab facilitates both UG and PG students to do their lab and project works in Cadence Virtuoso software. The software support custom analog and digital designs at device & chip level. Virtuoso is the industry’s most silicon proven, comprehensive IC design platform
