Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : EC4302 : PC Based Instrumentation { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Umesh Chandra Pati
Syllabus
| Module 1 : |
Generalized instrumentation system, PC-Based instrumentation system. Principles of data acquisition: Sampling concepts, Digital to analog converters, Analog to digital converters, Data acquisition systems, Data acquisition configurations. Hardware Organization of IBM PC: Motherboard components, System resources, Expansion buses and I/O ports, Peripherals. Plug-in Data Acquisition and Control Boards: Plug-in boards, General purpose plug-in DAQ board, PCI plug-in DAQ board. Data Acquisition using GPIB: Overview of GPIB, GPIB commands, GPIB programming, Expanding GPIB, SCPI. Data Acquisition using Serial Interfaces: Serial communication, Serial interface standards, PC serial port, USB, IEEE1394, Remote I/O modules. Networked Data Acquisition: Network data communication, Local area networks, HART communication, Field buses, Recent developments. |
Course Objective
| 1 . |
A student will be familiar with different type of data acquisition systems attached to PC. |
Course Outcome
| 1 . |
A graduate should be able to understand and design data acquisition & control system using local data acquisition, GPIB data acquisition, data acquisition using serial interfaces, networked data acquisition, DCS, SCADA and PLC. |
Essential Reading
| 1 . |
N. Mathivanan, PC-Based Instrumentation: Concepts and Practice, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, 2016 |
| 2 . |
H.S. Kalsi, Electronic Instrumentation, Tata-McGraw Hill Education,2017 |
Supplementary Reading
| 1 . |
Mike Tooley, PC-Based Instrumentation and Control, Newnes – An Imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013. |
| 2 . |
Kevin James, PC Interfacing and Data Acquisition, Elsevier,2015 |