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The
LabVIEW Graphical Development Environment will be used throughout
the course.
The following hardware/software will be
used in the class:
Controllers
- Desktop/Laptop computers with Windows XP
- CompactRio controllers (microprocessor + FPGA)
- PDA
- PXI or SCXI system (Demo only)
- FPGAs (Demo only)
Hardware
- Data Acquisition Cards
- GPIB interface cards
- Signal conditioning hardware (Low pass
filter, Wheatstone Bridge, etc)
- Vision system
Instruments controlled over GPIB
- Power supply
- Function generator
- Oscilloscope
- Digital Multimeter
Input Devices
- Touchscreen
- Joystick
- Numeric Keypad
- Microphone
- Mouse
- Speech recognition system
Sensors/Transducers
- Switches
- Temperature sensors (electronic,
thermocouples)
- Pressure sensors
- Light sensors
- Flow sensors
- Wind speed measurement
- Wind direction using electronic compass
- Smoke detector
- Accelerometer
- Touch sensor
- Passive Infra red motion sensor
- GPS receiver
- Webcam
- Bar code reader
- Weight sensor
- Proximity sensor
- RFID reader / writer
Actuators / output devices
- DC Motors
- Stepper Motors
- Servo motors
- Solenoid
- Relay
- LEDs & special displays
- Computer speaker
- SD Card reader/writer
Software interfacing & networking
- C Code
- Matlab
- Using Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
- Communicating with Windows XP
- MS Office (ActiveX)
- Internet publishing and control
- SMTP Email
- Distributed applications, Remote
logging/control (Datasockets)
- Database access using SQL (Demo only)
Interfaces and Protocols
- Serial
- GPIB
- USB
- Bluetooth
- Wifi
- Infra red (Demo only)
- Zigbee (Demo only)
- GSM (Demo only)
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