Organizational unit: ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT

Email
secins [at] iac.es
Headquarter
Headquarters
Description
The Department of Electronics is dedicated to the design and development of electronic systems in general, especially oriented towards scientific instruments. More specifically, digital and analogue systems are designed for the control of devices and for the acquisition and data processing in real time. Devices for reading, processing, control and characterization of detectors are also designed, as well as closed loop control systems. The Department manages the Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility laboratories as well as the Image and Sensors Laboratory for Astronomy and the Environmental Test Chamber.
  • Technical facility
    Control system analyser
    The control system analyser allows to measure system transfer functions of real systems in open and closed loop in both, module and phase.
  • Capability
    Design and development of computer control systems and applications
    The advances and the complexity of the instrumentation control systems and their integration with the telescopes or infrastructures where they are going to be...
  • Capability
    Design, development and manufacture of electronic systems
    Within its capacity of building scientific instrumentation, the IAC has extensive experience in the design and development of electronic systems in general and...
  • Capability
    Design, development and verification of Integrated Circuits
  • Capability
    Detector characterization
    The detectors, despite their widespread and simple use in many everyday applications, require a very precise knowledge for use in advanced scientific...
  • Technical facility
    Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory
    The laboratory is used for carrying out measurement and experiments in an environment completely isolated from external electromagnetic interferences.
  • Technical facility
    Electronic Design Laboratory
    The laboratory has the necessary infrastructures for the development, integration and verification of electronic systems
  • Technical facility
    Environmental test chamber
    The climatic chamber is an infrastructure where tests are carried out under simulated environmental conditions of temperature and humidity.
  • Technical facility
    FPGA logic analyser
    The logic analyser is a measuring instrument used for FPGA development