About Virtual Instrumentation
Centre
The PSG-NI
Virtual Instrumentation (VI) Centre was started on 10th
January 2000 jointly by National Instruments, USA and PSG College
of Technology, India. The Centre is a centralized facility for all
disciplines of Engineering and Technology of PSG College of Technology
and
Polytechnic College.
The centre consists of National Instruments hardware like data
acquisition cards, Compact Vision Systems (CVS), image acquisition cards,
cameras for image acquisition, DSP cards, signal conditioning units, NI
Education Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) and motion
controller cards. The centre facilities includes the latest versions of
National Instruments LabVIEW software, Vision Development Module,
Signal Express, NI MATRIX, LabWINDOWS, Measurements Studio and
toolkits like Model Based Control Design Toolkit, Signal Processing
Toolkit, PID Control Toolkit, Digital Filter Design Toolkit.
The VI centre provides facilities for students to carry out their under
graduate and post graduate projects. The centre encourages students in
various disciplines to carry out projects which lead to various
prestigious awards like VI Mantra (instituted by National Instruments),
NI Virtuosity (instituted by BITS, Pilani) and Institution of Engineers
Award.
The VI centre is actively involved in conducting short-term courses for
faculty and students from various engineering colleges. The centre
conducts courses for industries and research organizations like Ashok
Leyland Ltd., Hosur, The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA),
Indra Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Sundaram Clayton Ltd.,
Chennai, ELGI Equipments Ltd.,
Coimbatore
and Mayura Industrial Services Ltd., Chennai.
Purpose of the Centre
1.
To Teach LabVIEW
2.
To Train the students to carry out projects
3. To
Carry out Research Projects
4.
To Conduct short-term courses for
i.
Students
ii.
industrial participants
iii.
National Instruments sponsored Participants
Virtual Instrumentation
Combining hardware and software with industry-standard computer
technologies to create user-defined instrumentation solutions. Virtual
Instrumentation has been recognized all over the world as a powerful
means of developing a wide range of measurement and control solutions
for the industry. VI is now rapidly gaining popularity in India. The
unique advantage of virtual instrumentation is the facility to develop a
wide range of applications with a minimum inventory of hardware. The
design flexibility is provided by the sophisticated (and yet simple to
use) graphical programming language.
PC based instrumentation naturally took advantage of the power of the
popular Graphical User Interface. Virtual or graphical instrument
front-panels were designed with embedded objects. Software took over the
role of most of the cumbersome hardware. This offered the advantage of
user-defined solutions for instrumentation. The power of software was
now being fully harnessed. This new breed of instruments called Virtual
Instruments, slowly and steadily started drawing the attention of
professionals worldwide.
LabVIEW
“LabVIEW” is an acronym for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation
Engineering Workbench, a proprietary platform for virtual
instrumentation, provided by National Instruments, USA.
It is a platform for developing the graphical user panel and the code
for the virtual instrument. It has evolved over the years and now offers
extensive libraries for a variety of functions. It enables the developer
to program and access the hardware and performs the required
computations. Though it is optimized for instrumentation, it can be used
as a general purpose programming environment.
The virtual instrument developed using LabVIEW is, in short, called a
VI. The main LabVIEW programming platform is specific to different
operating systems like Windows, Linux but the VI developed using LabVIEW can easily be ported from one platform to another because of its
platform-neutral nature.
Advantages of Using
Virtual Instrumentation
1.
Increased flexibility
2.
Saves time and money
3.
Faster
development
4.
Better investment
5.
Easier solutions
6.
Complete environment
7.
Numerous add-on software products
Application Areas
1.Automobiles 
2.Bio-medical Engineering
3.Chemicals and Hi-tech materials
4.Civil & Structural Engineering
5.Defense
6.Food
& Beverage Industry
7.Metallurgy
8.Mechanical & Production Engineering
9.Power
10.Process Control Sectors
11.Remote Sensing
12.Telecommunications
13.Textiles
14.Polymer
Technology
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