pSugar: system-level framework for designing and modeling complex engineered microsystems

 

Some of devices (e.g. in communication, transportation, robotics, and entertainment) all based on the integration of MEMS with CMOS.

Perhaps the most exciting of these developments is the consumer electronics direction. In earlier generations, students were attracted to engineering because of railroads, automobiles, hamradio, etc. In this generation, it is likely to be devices like the Nintendo Wii that attracts them to engineering. The MEMS-based motion sensing capability on the Wii remote has distinguished it from other similar products, and is therefore an ideal way to attract students into engineering. In addition to the accelerometer, tilt sensors (such as in smartphones), shock sensors (such as in laptops), stabilization systems (in cameras) are all MEMS-based, and can excite the innate curiosity to attract students into engineering. To enable this, we propose and try building a gateway that not only explains how these sensors work, but can answer the natural questions that will arise in a curious young mind by enabling them to model, simulate and design such devices online.

 

 

This is PSUGAR, developed by Purdue

Develop Team:

• Dr. Jason V. Clark, Assistant Professor, ECE, Purdue Univ.
• Dr. Yi Zeng, Post Doc, ECE, Purdue Univ.

News:

• A pre-release version of pSugar has been deployed in Purdue’s Academic Success Center and is ready for students to use.
• pSugar is selected and will be used in Purdue’s Academic Success Center as a ‘virtual lab’ to help students grasp concepts in Circuit Analysis, Physics, Thermodynamics, and other applications.
• J. V. Clark, presentation: "REVOLUTIONARY TEACHING TECHNIQUES – A Visual Learning Model for Gateway Course Mastery", NAMEPA Region C Conference, Purdue University, January 31, 2009.

Publications:

• [*] J. V. Clark and Y. Zeng, "Towards an Efficient Multidisciplinary System-Level Framework for Designing and Modeling Complex Engineered Microsystems", submitted to the Sensors & Transducers Journal.
• J. V. Clark, "Modeling a Monolithic Comb Drive for Large-Deflection Multi-DOF Microtransduction," 17th Biennial IEEE University Government Industry Micro/Nano Symposium, July 13-17, 2008.
• J. V. Clark, Zeng Yi, Pankaj Jha "Design and Simulation Using PSugar 0.5" Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems MSM 2008, MD, March 27-29, 2008.

Download pSugar:

• Download instruction(.pdf) for circuit analysis using pSugar: Circuit Analysis Guide of pSugar.pdf

 

Contact us:

Email: psugar.dev@gmail.com