Virtual Instrumentation
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Virtual Instrumentation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Virtual Instrumentation (subject code 3170318) as prescribed for Biomed · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 24 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170318)Unit 1 Virtual Instrumentation
- Historical perspective
- advantages of VI, block diagram and architecture of a virtual instrument
- Conventional Instruments versus Traditional Instruments
- graphical programming in data flow
- comparison with conventional programming
Unit 2 VIs and sub-VIs, Error Checking and Error Handling, For and While loops, Shift Registers
- and Formula Nodes
- Arrays and Clusters
- Charts and Graphs
- Case and Sequence Structures
- Local and Global Variables
- String and File I/O
Unit 3 Introduction to Sensors and interfacing, Signal Conditioning, ADCs, DACs, Sampling,
- Noise and Filtering
- Common Instrument Interfaces:4–20mA Current Loop
- RS422 and RS485
- Interface Buses: USB, PCI, PXI
Unit 4 Use of Analysis tools, Linear Algebra, Statistics and Curve Fitting, Fourier transforms,
- power spectrum
- correlation methods
- windowing and filtering
- wavelet transform
Unit 5 Application of VI in Biomedical
- Biomedical Signal Acquisition and Analysis: Cardiovascular system
- Respiratory system
- Muscular System
- Image acquisition and processing
- Motion control