Elvis delivered to University of Pretoria
August 2003
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On 20 June, National Instruments South Africa delivered 90 NI Elvis student stations to the University of Pretoria. These were the balance of a total of 100 NI Elvis the Department of Electrical Engineering acquired earlier this year as part of the modernisation of its Electronics Laboratory for 1st and 2nd year students. The stations will give the students the benefit of using virtual instrumentation for making laboratory measurements, a worldwide trend that has also caught on here in South Africa.
NI Elvis is an open platform based on LabVIEW virtual instruments, a multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) device, and a custom-designed benchtop workstation and prototype board. This combination provides a ready-to-use suite of instruments found in all educational laboratories. Soft front panels for popular instruments like oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, bode analysers and power supplies are provided. Also, students can create custom instruments and measurement sequences using LabVIEW's graphical programming language. This combination makes the system ideal for academic coursework from lower-division classes, to advanced project-based curriculum, to the automation of distance learning laboratories.
The university of Pretoria is the first academic institution in South Africa to use NI Elvis as part of its adoption of virtual instrumentation. As part of its commitment to the successful implementation of NI Elvis in the Electronics curricula, National Instruments South Africa will train students and professors in the use of NI Elvis and LabVIEW through a series of hands-on seminars.
For more information contact National Instruments South Africa, 0800 299 199, [email protected], www.ni.com
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