Scribd
Upload
305 views2 pages

Ae361 Virtual Instrument Design

This document provides information on the course "Virtual Instrument Design". The course aims to review the basic concepts of virtual instrumentation, study the building blocks and graphical programming environments, and examine some applications. The syllabus covers topics like digital instrumentation fundamentals, virtual instrumentation architecture, VI programming techniques, data acquisition, and interfaces. Students will gain knowledge of virtual instrumentation and its applications. The course assessments include two internal exams and an end semester exam evaluating content from the six modules over the semester.

Uploaded by

Glan Devadhas
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
305 views2 pages

Ae361 Virtual Instrument Design

This document provides information on the course "Virtual Instrument Design". The course aims to review the basic concepts of virtual instrumentation, study the building blocks and graphical programming environments, and examine some applications. The syllabus covers topics like digital instrumentation fundamentals, virtual instrumentation architecture, VI programming techniques, data acquisition, and interfaces. Students will gain knowledge of virtual instrumentation and its applications. The course assessments include two internal exams and an end semester exam evaluating content from the six modules over the semester.

Uploaded by

Glan Devadhas
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Course L-T-P- Year of

Course name
code Credits Introduction
AE361 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT DESIGN 3-0-0-3 2016
Prerequisite : Nil
Course objectives
 To review background information required for studying virtual instrumentation.
 To study the basic building blocks of virtual instrumentation.
 To study the various graphical programming environment in virtual instrumentation.
 To study few applications in virtual instrumentation.
Syllabus
Review of digital instrumentation - Fundamentals of virtual instrumentation - VI
programming techniques - Data acquisition - VI Chassis requirements - Graphical
programming environment - Analysis tools and simple applications
Expected outcome
 The students will gain knowledge in virtual instrumentation and some of its
applications.
Text Books
1. Peter W. Gofton, ‘Understanding Serial Communications’, Sybex International.
2. Robert H. Bishop, ‘Learning with Lab-view’, Prentice Hall, 2003.
3. S. Gupta and J.P Gupta, ‘PC Interfacing for Data Acquisition and Process Control’,
Instrument society of America, 1994.
Reference Books
1. Gary W. Johnson, Richard Jennings, ‘Lab-view Graphical Programming’, McGraw
Hill Professional Publishing, 2006.
2. Kevin James, ‘PC Interfacing and Data Acquisition: Techniques for Measurement,
Instrumentation and Control’, Newness, 2000.
WEB RESOURCES:
www.ni.com
Course Plan
Semester
Module Contents Hours Exam
Marks
6 15%
I Review of digital instrumentation: - Representation of analog
signals in the digital domain – Review of quantization in
amplitude and time axes, sample and hold, sampling theorem,
ADC and DAC.

Virtual Instrumentation: Historical perspective - advantages - 7 15%


II block diagram and architecture of a virtual instrument -
Conventional Instruments versus Traditional Instruments -
data-flow techniques, graphical programming in data flow,
comparison with conventional programming.

FIRST INTERNAL EXAMINATION


VI programming techniques: VIs and sub-VIs, loops and 7 15%
III charts, arrays, clusters and graphs, case and sequence
structures, formula nodes, local and global variables, State
machine, string and file I/O, Instrument Drivers, Publishing
measurement data in the web.
Data acquisition basics: Introduction to data acquisition on 6 15%
IV PC, Sampling fundamentals, Input/Output techniques and
buses. ADC, DAC, Digital I/O, counters and timers, DMA,
Software and hardware installation, Calibration, Resolution,
Data acquisition interface requirements.
.
SECOND INTERNAL EXAMINATION
VI Chassis requirements. Common Instrument Interfaces: 8 20%
V Current loop, RS 232C/ RS485, GPIB. Bus Interfaces: USB,
PCMCIA, VXI, SCSI, PCI, PXI, Firewire. PXI system
controllers, Ethernet control of PXI. Networking basics for
office & Industrial applications, VISA and IVI.

VI toolsets, Distributed I/O modules. Application of Virtual 8 20%


VI Instrumentation: Instrument Control, Development of process
database management system, Simulation of systems using
VI, Development of Control system, Industrial
Communication, Image acquisition and processing, Motion
control.

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN:

Maximum Marks:100 Exam Duration: 3 Hours

Part A

Answer any two out of three questions uniformly covering Modules 1 and 2 together. Each
question carries 15 marks and may have not more than four sub divisions.

(15 x 2 = 30 marks)

Part B

Answer any two out of three questions uniformly covering Modules 3 and 4 together. Each
question carries 15 marks and may have not more than four sub divisions.

(15 x 2 = 30 marks)

Part C

Answer any two out of three questions uniformly covering Modules 5 and 6 together. Each
question carries 15 marks and may have not more than four sub divisions.

(20 x 2 = 40 marks)

You might also like