Virtual Instrumentation
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The official GTU curriculum for Virtual Instrumentation (subject code 2730305) as prescribed for IACI ยท Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 36 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 (2730305)Unit 1 Introduction
- comparison with hard wired instruments
- VI architecture
- block diagram representation
- VI application softwares
- salient features and application areas. 06 0-10%
Unit 2 LabVIEW basics
- building front panel and block diagram
- tools and palettes
- creating subVI
- Controlling program flow โ Loops
- shift registers
- local and global variables
- data types- Numeric
- data presentation elements
- graphs and charts. 03 0-10%
Unit 3 LabVIEW advance
- File input โ output
- timing and synchronization
- mathematical analysis function
- Data communication functions
- programmatically controlling VIs 09 15-20%
Unit 4 Data acquisition basics
- Classification of signals
- analog I/O and digital I/O signal acquisition
- study different types of data acquisition system (USB, PCI, RS-485 network based). 06 20-30%
Unit 5 LabVIEW data acquisition and instrument control
- Study of various functions
- Interfacing DAQ system with LabVIEW
- Building VIs for analog I/O and digital I/O
- study of VIs, control of instruments and DAQ system using serial
- RS-485 and GPIB interface. 03 15-20%
Unit 6 Software signal processing and manipulation
- Sampling theorem
- anti- aliasing filters
- time and frequency domain analysis
- signal generation
- spectrum analysis
- digital filtering. 08 15-25%
Unit 7 Case study
- Development of VIs for specific application (simulation
- real time)
- control engineering