Applied Virtual Instrumentation

Introduction: general issues in virtual instrumentation, software packages, basics of signal acquisition, personal computers and external devices; hardware configuring, experimental set-up structure for vi illustration; LabVIEW and HP VEE Packages - introduction, LabVIEW(tm); HP VEE(tm); signals and measuring configuration - signals and sources, DAQ measurement configurations, equivalent circuits for sensors, coupling sensors to measuring devices; sensors - introduction, temperature transducers, pressure sensors, piezoelectric sensors, strain sensors, resistive potentiometers for position sensing, inductive sensors, hall effect sensors; signal acquisition - analog to digital converter (A/D), digital to analog converter (DAC); data acquisition boards (DAQ), PCMCIA cards, data buses; sensors characteristics measurement - measurement technique outline, PCM-DAS 16D/12 card, accelerometer sensor, rotary potentiometer for angular measurements, linear potentiometer for distance measurement, inductive sensor, thermocouples, universal library for LabVIEW; instrument control - GPIB instrument control with HP VEE, component characteristics measurement using GPIB.