Jovan's Research Blog

I'm kicking off this blog for the year with the most recent piece of equipment I will receive training on. That is the Biologic BCS Battery Tester that we have on the second level of the building. In the past I have worked on interfacing this instrument with a computer and the AES Environmental Chamber. Now I'm being told I should learn how to run the equipment and train others on it's use. So I have registered myself on the Biologic website to receive documentation on the BCS-810 and BCS-815 instrumentation. Also downloaded a local copy of the software for my future training on the interface and enabled remote access to the computer that operates the instrument.

Well it's been a long time since I had anything to write about in this research blog. That's because most of the work I have been doing has been locked under non-disclosure agreements. But now that we serve the university and industry by renting out our equipment, I felt it would be useful to talk about the instruments I have available under the iLab AEP Core umbrella for use.

This week I have been working on the Gen-II array tester using the AFE0064 charge sense chip modules we created a year ago. The system is back up and running and we need to figure out why we get the output that we do with the FDC-39B array that was attached to it over a year ago. We get a partial readout but a lot of black columns as well. It appears that the black bars may be due to the AFE0064 modules themselves. Some of them may be defective and we already see that some of them have a blue wire repair to correct some problem with circuit fabrication.

A checker board pattern was created with the FPGA to simulate a known data pattern coming out of the AFE0064. This checker board pattern was successfully displayed on the PC output of the system. Horizontal bars and vertical gradients will be tested next to ensure that the LabView data streaming and data parsing algorithms are correct. After these tests we can move on to testing the individual AFE0064 modules and testing system parameters and lighting conditions to see if they improve image output.

Many panels have been repaired this week. Here is what has been done:

1. E1630-001 all panels repaired
2. E1628-001 panel 3 repaired
3. E1620-001 panel 6 repaired.

Testing if this perl script will run

I submitted an extended abstract for our poster to be presented at the USDC Flexible Display Conference to be held on January 23, 2008. The abstract can be found here.

Weekly reports list has been updated to 5-14-2007. The list is located here.

I gave a poster presentation summarizing my work to the ARCS Foundation on 4-20-2007.

Weekly reports for the past month have been uploaded. You can find them here as well as in the articles section.