Computer Interfacing Laboratory

该设备正在完成物理系开设的为期四分之一的电子设计课程的现代化。第三个四分之一的计算机接口课程正在开发中。它将让学生使用个人电脑控制温度，并测量简单的法布里-珀罗标准具随温度变化的光传输。他们正在使用实时多任务类Unix操作系统、C编程语言、模数和数模转换器，以及反馈控制理论的雏形。

The equipment is completing a modernization of the two-quarter Electronic Design class offered by the Physics Department. A third one-quarter class in computer interfacing is being developed. It will involve students in using personal computers to control temperature, and to measure the temperature dependent optical transmission of a simple Fabry- Perot etalon. They are using a real-time multitasking UNIX- like operating system, the C programming language, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and rudiments of feedback control theory.