Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Virtual instrumentation (17.EIVI)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Biomedical Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Električna merenja, metrologija i biomedicina
ECTS	6

Acquiring basic knowledge in the field of computer application in realization of measuring and control systems using the concept of virtual instrumentation. Familiarizing with the realization of virtual instruments and their hardware and software architecture. Acquiring knowledge about realization of measuring devices using the concept of virtual instrumentation. Mastering the student with modern technologies and trends in the field of measurement and signal analysis. Acquiring knowledge from the basics of computer-based design of measuring systems.

Ability to know the work of computers in the realization of measurement-regulation systems and principles of operation of virtual instruments. Ability to know the principles of measuring devices and program realization in the LabVIEW software package. Ability to realize measurement, acquisition and data processing using virtual instrumentation and LabVIEW. Training for realization of simple measuring systems.

Introduction to virtual instrumentation. Characteristics of virtual instruments. Characteristics of software and hardware of virtual instrumentation. Connecting and controlling the instrument. The term distributive virtual instrumentation. Realization of distant measurements. Virtual laboratories. LabVIEW software package. Creating a Virtual Instrument (VI). Running the program and removing errors. Creating VI and sub-VIA. Loops and structures. Event guided programming. Grouping data using strings, arrays, and clusters. Local and global variables. Graphs and diagrams. Working with files. Formulas and equations. Real-time operation, continuous data analysis. Measurement and acquisition of signals. Measuring converters and adapters. Categories of the measurement signal source. Sampling (sampling) of the signal. Measuring and acquisition devices for signals, types and properties. Measure and analyze signals using LabVIEW software package. Internet capabilities in the LabVIEW program. Measurement realization via the Internet.

Lectures, laboratory practice.