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Instrument Development Laboratory

At the Instrument Development Laboratory (IDL), staff play a critical role in the design, development, construction, and testing of many of the instruments used at EMSL. In fact, these staff provide the support necessary to rapidly modify or adapt a user's system to help the user achieve the world-class results they expect at EMSL.

IDL staff provide electrical engineering expertise in high-voltage, radiofrequency, and high-speed analog and digital systems; digital signaling processing and FPGA technology; and rapid prototyping. In addition, IDL software engineers provide expertise in managing very large data sets, laboratory automation, data acquisition and instrument control, communication interfaces, graphical user interface design and development, and other critical software needs. These staff are fully experienced in many different operating systems and development environments, including VB, C, C++, Java, C#.

Brochure: Instrument Development Laboratory (pdf 552kb)

Contact: Dan Sisk (509-371-6444)