Technical Support Services (TSS)
The technical support staff are located in a suite of rooms on the 4th floor and support the teaching and research work of the department. The group provides a full range of design and fabrication services, including PCB design and production, and circuit and system design and construction.
Printed Circuit Board Production Laboratory
This laboratory contains a comprehensive set of PCB production equipment able to produce through-hole-plated PCBs. Equipment includes:
- CNC Drilling Machine
- Dry Film Laminator
- UV Exposure Unit
- Spray Developer
- Spray Etch Machine
- Tin Plating
- Through-Hole-Plating Line
- Binocular Microscope
Fabrication Workshop
The fabrication workshop contains a range of electronic and mechanical tools for the construction and testing of electronic systems including packaging into instrument cases or equipment racks. Equipment available in this area includes:
- Soldering equipment
- Desoldering equipment
- Surface Mount Assembly equipment
- Precision Liquid Dispenser
- Hot-plate Reflow Oven
- Vapour Phase Reflow System
- Inspection Equipment (Binocular Microscope and 3D Magnifier)
- PCB Drills
- Large Pillar Drill
- Guillotine
- A wide range of mechanical hand tools
TSS Office
The TSS team are available to provide help and advice across the electronics discipline with specialist knowledge in the following areas:
- PCB design techniques
- PCB manufacture
- RF systems design and manufacture
- Microcontroller design
- Embedded PC systems
- PC networking system design
- Programming
- FPGA and DSP system design
- Electronic construction techniques
- Electronic equipment and component sourcing
- Teaching module specification and design
- Project management (including international collaborations)
- Health and Safety
The TSS team are available for consultation by any member of the Electronics Department, staff or student.