Review: Graphical programming in data flow VIs and sub-VIs, loops and charts, Arrays, Clusters and graphs, Case and sequence structures, Formula nodes, Local and global variables, String and file I/O. 

Elements of Data acquisition: ADC, DAC, DIO, Counters and timers, PC Hardware structure, Timing, Interrupts; DMA Software and hardware installation Current loop RS232C/ RS485, GPIB 

Signal processing: Sampling Signals, Sampling Considerations, Need of Anti-aliasing Filters, The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), The Power Spectrum, Auto-correlation, Cross-correlation, Convolution, Deconvolution, Characteristics of Different Types of Window Functions , Realization of IIR and FIR filters.

 

System buses, Interface buses: USB, PCMCIA, VXI, SCXI, PXI, etc., Networking basics for office and industrial applications, VISA   and   IVI, Motion Control. 

 

Machine Vision : Digital images, definition, types, files, borders ad masks, Image display, Pallets, Region of Interest, Non-Destructive overlays,  Convolution kernels, Spatial filters, Gray scale morphology, Thresholding, Particle measurement, Edge detection, Pattern matching.

 

Laboratory Work : Experiments around various elements of Labview like charts, Graphs, Loops, Arrays, Clusters etc., and  data-acquisition and signal processing tools. 

 

Recommended Books

1. Johnson, G., LabVIEW Graphical Programming, McGraw Hill (2006) 4^th ed.
2. Sokoloft, Basic Concepts of LabVIEW 4, Prentice Hall of India (1998).
3. Wells, L.K., and Travis, J., LabVIEW for Everyone, Prentice Hall Inc. (2001) 2^nd ed.