Software & Resources

CAD/CAM

The lab hosts instances of SolidWorks, AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite.

Workstations are a Dell Precision 5820 Tower with an Nvidia RTX A4500, 20GB, graphics card, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, and a Xeon 4C 4.1GHz processor, and a similarly-equipped Dell Precision 5860 Tower. Each may be used by one member of the RLE community at a time, in the lab.

PCB Layout

These days, powerful PCB layout software is available for free to all (KiCad) and students (Altium). Note: Autodesk has discontinued Eagle support and integrated PCB labout into Fusion360.

For this reason most lab users will not need hours upon hours of access, but for those tough routing jobs Rodgers hosts KiCad on the Precision 5820 workstation.

The Rodgers lab is also available for consultation for the PCB layout software and techniques.

SPICE

Powerful simulation software may be made available to the RLE community on virtual machines in the future. In the meantime, Dr. Nagle will gladly introduce you to LTSPICE (installed on the workstations), RFSPICE, and help to find and configure component SPICE models.

Multiphysics

ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL or similar may be available on powerful virtual machines administered through Rodgers in the future.

At present, the Lab is happy to help you sign up for existing MTL-CAD resources (Note, you must be on MIT network or VPN to access this list and the resources.).

Cypress PSoC Code

Future repository….

FPGA

Future repository….