ESRDC Facilities And Capabilities.
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1.4 University of South Carolina Facilities and Laboratories

Realtime Electromechanics Laboratory
This laboratory focuses on real-time interactions (hardware in the simulation loop and control of power converters) between power electronics and electromechanical systems. It includes small rotating machines and test stands up to 2 kW, four dSpace systems for rapid control prototyping, a variety of microcontroller and dsp prototyping kits including for Infineon C167, Texas DSP TMS320C240F, Xilinx FPGA, and National Instruments PXI and VXI data acquisition/control/computing platforms.

Power Electronics Laboratory
This laboratory focuses on characterization of power electronic devices and fabrication of power converters. It contains cryogenic test stands for power electronics, high-speed test and measurement instrumentation including wideband (GHz) arbitrary waveform generators, and facilities for fabrication of printed circuit boards.

Power Sources Laboratory
Work in this laboratory addresses issues related to power sources, especially fuel cell power sources and hybrid configurations of those sources that include integral energy storage systems and power management systems. The laboratory contains a PEM fuel cell, advanced batteries and supercapacitors, and power supplies operating at up to kW levels. The laboratory also houses a modular linear permanent magnet motor of 3m length.

Simulation facilities
Computing facilities include a wide variety of desktop systems, a quad-processor Itanium computer, and access to the College of Engineering's new cluster computer.
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