Catalog Description: Laboratory exercises constructing basic interfacing circuits and writing 20-100 line C programs for data acquisition, storage, analysis, display, and control. Use of the IBM PC with microprogrammable digital counter/timer, parallel I/O port, and analog I/O port. Circuit components include anti-aliasing filters, the S/H amplifier, A/D and D/A converters. Exercises include effects of aliasing in periodic sampling, fast Fourier transforms of basic waveforms, the use of the Hanning filter for leakage reduction, Fourier analysis of the human voice, digital filters, and control using Fourier deconvolution. Lectures cover principles explored in the laboratory exercises and design of microcomputer-based systems for data acquisition, analysis, and control.

Units: 3

Prerequisites: 40 and 60B.

Formats:
Spring: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week
Fall: 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week

Grading basis: letter

Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period

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Department Notes:

Course objectives:

• To use the LabVIEW programming language, and digital and analog interfacing in an interactive, microcomputer environment
• To learn to use digital timers, digital interfacing, and simple handshaking with expansion cards and external devices.
• To learn the principles of operation and use of D/A and A/D converters and build a data acquisition circuit
• To learn to sample digital data, use anti-aliasing filters and windows, and perform the FFT
• To learn to use digital filters, and digital control strategies for both linear and non-linear systems
• To learn to design anti-aliasing filters that meet specific requirements
• To make programs and analog circuits work together (design and debugging)

Topics covered: Laboratory exercises constructing basic interfacing circuits and writing LabVIEW programs for data acquisition, storage, display, and control. Use of the IBM PC microcomputer running the Windows XP operating system and a subsystem containing a dedicated processor, analog and digital I/O, timers, and memory. Circuit components include operational and instrumentation amplifiers, anti-aliasing filters, the sample-and-hold amplifier, A/D and D/A converters. Exercises include the timing of external events, digital interfacing with handshaking, effects of aliasing in periodic sampling, fast Fourier transforms of basic waveforms, the use of the Hann filter for spectral leakage reduction, Fourier analysis of the human voice, digital filters, and control using Fourier deconvolution. Students perform ten laboratory exercises working in groups of two and then individually write five long and five short laboratory reports. General list of topics include:

• Computer architecture
• LabVIEW programming
• Bits and numbers, timers
• Event timing
• Student's t analysis
• Digital I/O
• Single and multiple word transfers, handshaking
• Analog interfacing, D/A converters
• Introduction to A/D converters
• Periodic sampling, aliasing
• Integral Fourier transforms
• Windowing, discrete Fourier transforms
• Aliasing and anti-aliasing filters
• Spectral analysis
• Sampling system design summary
• FFT of periodic signals, resonant systems
• FFT control of linear time-invariant systems
• On-off and proportional control algorithms
• A Real-time digital filters vs. analog filters
• PID control
• Interfacing techniques
• Data analysis
• Design problem examples

Related Areas:

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)