The Electronics Laboratory of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki focuses in analog and digital circuit design, analog testing and fault diagnosis, circuit simulations, VLSI design, digital logic, IoT & microcontroller systems, and FPGAs. It is equipped with the necessary laboratory infrastructure and the required suitable experimental setups.
The director of the Electronics Laboratory, Professor Alkiviadis A. Hatzopoulos, has provided the team with access to its facilities. Since November 2018, our team uses the laboratory daily as the main facility for researching, designing and prototyping the nanosatellite while also scheduling meetings and holding training sessions there.
The laboratory additionally features:
- Soldering stations and workbenches for electronics construction
- Servers and PC workstations, necessary for simulations and the team’s IT infrastructure
- Electrical testing equipment, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and signal generators
- A 3D printer
- An RFID-based check-in system
The team has spent over 8000 total hours (across all of its members) on the laboratory so far, performing research, design or construction work for the AcubeSAT nanosatellite, completing crucial work related with the design and functional testing of the satellite’s electronics, holding concurrent engineering sessions, or sketching the next steps on AcubeSAT’s journey.