A World Wide Web-Based Laboratory for Undergraduate Analog VLSI Design

万维网(WWW)目前的受欢迎程度和可访问性的爆炸式增长正在塑造教育机构为学生提供未来服务的方式。目前，有一种零星的、但不断增长的运动，为实验室提供WWW访问。这一能力有望为那些教授本科水平课程的学生提供从远程访问真正最先进的教育设施的能力，而几乎不需要为远程校园支付额外费用。该项目以开发模拟集成电路设计和测试领域的本科生网络实验室为中心。该计划是开发一套自动化仪器，用于在几个本科水平的实验室测量预制模拟集成电路的特性。仪器受到控制，测量结果通过WWW传输。实现该仪器套件所需的设备包括个人计算机控制器(具有与WWW的接口)、由GPIB控制的信号分析仪、函数发生器、可编程电源、频率计数器、数字存储示波器和高频数字万用表。仪器的控制方式与马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯大学目前的高级实验室设备类似，后者基于类似的设备套件。

The World Wide Web's (WWW) current explosion in popularity and accessibility is shaping the way educational institutions provide future service to their students. At the present time, there is a sporadic, but growing, movement to provide WWW access to laboratories. This capability promises to provide those teaching undergraduate-level courses the ability to access truly state-of-the-art educational facilities from distant locations, with little or no additional cost to the distant campus. This project centers around the development of an undergraduate web-based laboratory in the area of analog integrated circuit design and testing. The plan is to develop a suite of automated instrumentation to be used for measuring the characteristics of the prefabricated analog integrated circuit in several undergraduate level laboratories. The instrumentation is controlled and the measurement results transmitted over the WWW. The equipment acquired to implement this instrumentation suite is a personal computer controller (featuring an interface to the WWW), a GPIB-controlled signal analyzer, a function generator, a programmable power supply, a frequency counter, a digital storage oscilloscope, and a high-frequency digital multimeter. The instrumentation is being controlled in a similar fashion as the current senior laboratory equipment at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which is based on a similar equipment suite.