„POLITEHNICA” UNIVERSITY FROM TIMIŞOARA
SYLLABUS
for the discipline:
“VIRTUAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS”
FACULTY OF AUTOMATION AND COMPUTERS
DOMAIN /SPECIALIZATION: COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Year of studies: I (MASTER)
Semester: 2
Course instructor: Prof. dr. ing. Mircea POPA
Applications instructor: Prof. dr. ing. Mircea POPA
Number of hours/week/Evaluation/Credits
Course
Seminar
Laboratory
Project
2
0
0
1
Evaluation
E
Credits
9
A. COURSE OBJECTIFS
- to understand the Virtual Instrumentation (VI) concept, its features, advantages and implementation;
- to learn about a classical VI software, the National Instruments’ LabVIEW, the programming techniques and concepts
from labVIEW;
- to learn about the hardware needed for instrumentation;
- to be able to design a LabVIEW based virtual instrument.
B. COURSE SUBJECTS
Overview of virtual instrumentation: Evolution of virtual instrumentation (VI); Architecture of a virtual instrument;
Software level; Advantages of VI; LabVIEW; VI in engineering (2 hours); Programming techniques: LabVIEW
environment; Dataflow programming; G programming (4 hours); Programming concepts: Control structures;
Selection structures; Arrays; Clusters; Strings; Waveform charts and graphs; Tables; File input/ output (2 hours);
Inputs and outputs: Transducers; Sensors; Signal operations; A/D and D/A control (2 hours); Interfaces for
instrumentation: Current loops; RS232; RS422; RS485; GBIP; VISA (4 hours); Input/ output buses: USB; PCI; PCI
Express; PXI; PCMCIA; VXI; LXI (4 hours); Data acquisition: Data acquisition in LabVIEW; Hardware installation
and configuration; Data acquisition hardware; Data acquisition software (4 hours); Data transmission: Pulse codes;
A/D modulation techniques; Wireless communications; Distributed automation and control systems; SCADA (4 hours);
Applications (2 hours)
C. APPLICATIONS SUBJECTS
(laboratory, seminar, project)
Projects:
1. Remote data acquisition using the ADVANTECH PCI 1710 board and LabVIEW
2. Remote data analysis and control using the ADVANTECH PCI 1712 board and LabVIEW
3. Remote data acquisition using the ADVANTECH PCL 816 board and
4. Study of the IEEE 1488 GPIB interface
5. Client – Server applications in LabVIEW
6. Distributed virtual instrumentation with LabVIEW
7. LabVIEW based robot control system
8. LabVIEW tools
D. REFERENCES
1. J. Travis: LabVIEW for Everyone (2nd Edition), CRC, 2002
2. S. Sumathi, P. Surehka: LabVIEW based Advanced Instrumentation Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2007
3. R. Bitter, T. Mohiuddin, M. Nawrocki: LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques, 2006
E. EVALUATION PROCEDURE
Exam and project each of them with 50% of the final note.
F. INTERNATIONAL COMPATIBILITY
1. University of Glasgow: MSc Virtual Instrumentation
2. Cornell University: Computer Instrumentation Design
3. New Jersey’s Science & Technology University: Virtual Instrumentation
Date: 10.04.2008
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Prof. dr. ing. Vladimir CREŢU
COURSE INSTRUCTOR,
Prof. dr. ing. Mircea POPA