ES416 Design Project:Personal Computer (PC) based semiconductor curve tracer utilizing  the following:

• Visual Basic software interface to a microprocessor controlled transistor tester
• power supply design.
• printed circuit board design of microprocessor board and power supply board

Features:

• Software:
  • easy to use graphical interface
  • data acquisition over serial port
  • user selectable specimen device type
  • graphical representation of data
  • printing using standard Windows print dialog
  • on-line help
• Hardware:
  • custom printed circuit board design for Motorola 68HC11 based embedded controller
  • custom design and construction of power supply to specifications

Snapshot of final software design:

Snapshot of final hardware design: