KALASALINGAM UNIVERSITY

(Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education)

ANAND NAGAR, KRISHNANKOIL- 626 190. Srivilliputhur (Via) VIRUDHUNAGAR (Dt.) TAMILNADU

School of Electrical and Communication sciences

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

COURSE PLAN for the academic year 2012-2013 (Even Semester)

EIE315-VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION (Free Elective) Year / Sem: III Year / VI Sem Course: B. Tech Staff Incharge: Mr. SARAVANAKUMAR. G, Assistant Professor Gr -II/ICE AIM To provide sound knowledge on the Virtual instrumentation both in software and hardware aspects. OBJECTIVES To Learn History of virtual instrumentation Dataflow techniques Virtual Instrumentation programming techniques Data acquisition and instrument interface Analysis tools Applications

TEXT & REFERENCE BOOKS TEXT BOOKS T1: Gary Johnson, LabVIEW graphical programming, McGraw Hill, New york, 2nd edition, 1997 T2: Lisa K. Wells and Jeffrey Travels, LabVIEW for everyone, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1997 REFERENCE BOOK R1: Gupta, S. and Gupta, J.P., PC interfacing for Data Acquisition & Process Control, Instrument Society of America, 2nd edition, 1994 R2: Kevin James, PC Interfacing and Data Acqusition Techniques for Measurement, Instrumentation and Control., New Nes, 2000 R3: S. Sumathi, P. Surekha., Labview Based Advanced Instrumentation Systems, Springer R4: Peter A. Blume., The LabVIEW Style Book, Prentice Hall R5: Malan Shiralk, LabVIEW Graphical Programming Course, CONNEXIONS, Rice University, Houston, Texas WEBRESORCES http://www.njit.edu/v2/Directory/Centers/OPSE/OPSE610/Spring2005.htm http://people.etf.unsa.ba/~asalihbegovic/Special%20measurement%20methods.html http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/publications/Andrew_pdf/89-462-C.pdf http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/Accelconf/ica01/papers/WEAP035.pdf http://www.arcelect.com/rs232.htm http://www.hardwarebook.info/PCI http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-485.html

http://www.hit.bme.hu/~papay/edu/GPIB/tutor.htm http://myweb.wit.edu/johnsont/Classes/LabView_Labs/LabVIEW_Resources.htm LESSON PLAN Cumul ative No. of periods 2 4 6 8 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50

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REVIEW OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION Historical perspective of VI T1,R3 Advantages of VI, block diagram of VI T1,R3 Architecture of a virtual instrumentation T1,R3 Introduction to LabVIEW 2009 T1,R3 DATA FLOW TECHNIQUES Graphical programming T1,R3 Data flow in G-Programming T1,R3 Comparison with conventional programming T1,R3 VI PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES Development of simple VIs and sub-VIs, declaring T1,R3,R4 local, global variables For loop, while loop , shift register, feedback nodes T1,R3,R4 Waveform charts, waveform graphs, XY graphs, T1,R3,R4 mechanical action of Boolean switches Single and multidimensional arrays creating clusters, T1,R3,R4 cluster function, error handling Case structures, sequence structures, formula nodes, T1,R3,R4 tables, list boxes Creating string, string functions, file I/Os, Express VIs T1,R3,R4 DATA ACQUISITION AND INSTRUMENT INTERFACE Analog to Digital conversion, Digital to Analog T1,R1,R2 Conversion, Digital I/O, Counters, Timers PC hardware structure, timing, interrupts, DMA T1,R1,R2 Software and hardware installation, Current loop T1,R1,R2 RS232/RS485 T1,R1,R2 GPIB, USB, PCMCIA T1,R1,R2 ANALYSIS TOOLS AND APPLICATION Control and simulation toolkit, system identification T1,R3,R6 toolkit Overview of VISA and |v| T1,R3,R6 Image acquisition and processing T1,R3,R6 VI applications in various fields T1,R3,R6 Real time application development using VI T1,R5,R6

SEMINAR TOPICS

Image acquisition Hardware Real time application using LabVIEW. Control Applications using LabVIEW. RELATED INDUSTRY TO BE VISITED National Instruments, Bengalooru. Apna Technologies and Solutions, Chennai. Captronics system Pvt LtD, Bengalooru. CAL-BAY system, Coimbatore.

Prepared by (G.SARAVANAKUMAR) Course Teacher /Course Coordinator.

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