Hardware Programming for Nano-electro-mechanical Systems
Mentors
Project Description
The student will conduct background research on hardware programming and will build an all-electrical setup for precision measurement of an electro-mechanical resonator. The student will be provided with relevant hardware and software, including FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) boards, their corresponding IDEs (integrated development environment), and other pieces of electronics. The student will work closely with a graduate student and will be in charge of programming, building, and testing the electrical circuit.
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Research Participant
Weeks 1-2: Practice programming FPGA for simple logic operations, literature review, learn about electrical circuits under supervision of a graduate student.Research Goals
Learning Goals
Timeline
Weeks 3-4: Program individual electrical components on an FPGA board.
Weeks 5-6: Program individual electrical components on an FPGA board (cont’d).
Week 7-8: Test and troubleshoot individual components.
Weeks 9-10: Build a working FPGA-based circuit by assembling individual components and test its functionality, poster preparation.