Review of Virtual Instrumentation: Historical perspective, Need of VI, Advantages of VI,
Define VI, block diagram & architecture of VI, data flow techniques, graphical programming in
data flow, comparison with conventional programming.
Programming Techniques: VIS & Sub VIS, loops & charts, arrays, clusters, graphs, case &
sequence structures, formula modes, local & global variables, string & file Input.
Data Acquisition basics: ADC, DAC, DIO, Counters & timers, PC Hardware structure,
timing, interrupts, DMA, Software and Hardware Installation.
Common Instrument Interfaces: Current loop, Rs 232C/Rs 485, GPIB, System basics,
interface basics: USB, PCMCIA, VXI, SCXI, PXI etc, networking basics for office & industrial
application VISA & IVI, image acquisition & processing, Motion Control.
Use of Analysis Tools: Fourier transfo+rms, Power spectrum, Correlation methods,
windowing & flittering.
Application of VI: Application in Process Control projects, Major equipments-Oscilloscope,
Digital Multimeter, 120 MHz Pentium Computers, Labview Software, Study of Data
Acquisition & Control using Labview ® Virtual instrumentation for an Innovative Thermal
Conductivity Apparatus to measure the Thermal Conductivity Apparatus- to measure the
conductivity of non Newtonian fluids while they are subjected to sharing force.