fossasia/pslab-hardware
Pslab Hardware
This project provides a comprehensive open-source hardware platform designed for scientific measurement and electronic instrumentation. It serves as a complete ecosystem for developing, documenting, and manufacturing custom laboratory-grade devices, offering a collection of schematics, printed circuit board layouts, and fabrication blueprints.
The platform distinguishes itself by integrating hardware design tools with functional measurement capabilities. Users can generate standardized industry files for professional circuit board manufacturing while simultaneously utilizing the hardware to perform precision analog signal sampling, digital logic analysis, and programmable waveform synthesis.
The system supports a broad range of electronic testing and prototyping activities, including the monitoring of serial communication protocols and the integration of external sensors through modular peripheral interfaces. It also provides resources for hardware documentation, including bills of materials and enclosure labeling, to facilitate the assembly and customization of scientific measurement equipment.
Features
- Scientific Instrument Assembly - Provides a programmable platform for measuring analog signals, generating test waveforms, and analyzing digital communication protocols.
- Open-Source Scientific Hardware - Provides open-source schematics, bills of materials, and expansion interfaces to design, assemble, and integrate custom scientific measurement hardware.
- Analog Signal Monitoring - Captures and visualizes raw analog signals from hardware inputs for precise measurement.
- Digital Logic Analyzers - Captures and analyzes the state and transitions of digital signals in electronic circuits.
- Signal Generators - Produces programmable voltage, current, and arbitrary waveforms including sine, triangular, and pulse-width modulated outputs to test electronic circuits.
- Schematic Capture Editors - Provides editors for drawing electronic circuit diagrams using symbols, wires, and net labels for design capture.
- PCB Fabrication File Exporters - Converts board designs into industry-standard Gerber and drill data streams for professional manufacturing.
- Analog-to-Digital Converters - Determines frequency, capacitance, and voltage levels using high-precision analog-to-digital converters and integrated counters.
- Serial Peripheral Interfaces - Facilitates synchronous communication between the host system and external peripheral hardware devices.
- Electronics - Provides tools and resources for the design, simulation, and development of electronic circuits.
- Manufacturing Outputs - Generates bills of materials and fabrication files for physical board assembly.
- Hardware Design Assets - Provides technical documentation including schematics and bills of materials for device assembly.
- SPI I2C One-Wire Serial Activators - Exchanges data using standard serial protocols including I2C, SPI, and UART to interface with external sensors and modules.
- Circuit Layouts - Manages the physical arrangement of components and routing on printed circuit boards.
- Digital Signal Processing Libraries - Provides libraries and algorithms for processing and analyzing digital signals.
