Electronics and Computer Module
Administrator: Bret A. Hughes, Ph.D.
Staffed by: Scott Almburg, MSET
Email: saalmbur@umich.edu
Phone: 734-936-7381
Fax: 734-936-7231
The Electronics and Computer Module occupies 246 sq. ft. of dedicated space on the 7th floor of the Brehm Tower. It is readily accessible by investigators with laboratories on the same floor, and those in the adjacent Kellogg Research Tower.
The principal objective of this Module is to provide primary investigators who have NEI grants with additional electronics and computer support in conducting vision research. A secondary objective is to facilitate collaborative studies among vision scientists.
Services
The Module provides several services:
- Design specialized electronic research equipment not available commercially.
- Repair and maintain existing electronic equipment.
- Consult on design of new equipment and modification of existing equipment supporting vision research, including breadboarding test circuits, wire-wrapping circuits, and PCB design.
- Support and repair of research computers. Service extends to hardware and software for PC, Macintosh, and Linux.
- Provide backup services for research computers.
- Provide programming support for Labview, C, Matlab, Microchip PIC, and Allen Bradley PLCs.
- Provide support for bioinformatics high performance Linux computer cluster for gene sequencing analysis
Instrumentation
The Module contains a full complement of electronic test equipment and software to support research:
- Tektronix oscilloscopes – analog and digital
- Function generators – Sinusoidal, RF, and Arbitrary Function
- Power supplies, current supplies, voltmeters, capacitance meters
- Labview 2009
- Autocad
- Programmable logic programmers for ROM, PLA, GAL, FPGA, and PLD devices
