5930 Data Acquisition and Control

• Check FAU Classes for course offering
• Check Blackboard for current class material
• Course News, check twice a week
  • Sign up for NI seminars.
• Course requirement for final grades at the end of the semester:
  • Final LabVIEW demo (10 minutes): bring your VIs on a floppy to demonstrate it in room 324B
  • Final oral presentation (10 minutes): few power point slides presenting your projects and its significance
  • Submit your final report which includes all aspects of you project in a very concise terms, graphs and images are more important than lengthy text.
  • Submit a one page executive summary, sample
  • Submit a floppy (or CD) which includes your VIs and you report and exec summary in MS word. If info did not fit, email me the files.
  • Return all martial you borrowed from my office and/or the lab.
• Data Acquisition Course Documents
  • Course Guidelines (PDF format)
  • HW/SW Projects:
    • Proposal,
    • Report Sample,
    • Executive Summary
  • Research Paper:
    • Proposal,
    • paper Sample,
    • Executive Summary
• Important Links, Brows on your own for your own benefit.
  • National Instruments
  • NI Academic
• Data Acquisition Lab
  • Lab Documents
    • CSE Lab Regulations (PDF format)
• DAQ Hardware Setups
  • Hardware:
    • PC 104 Form SBC Station: Standard PC bus expansion adapters, DAQ, Sound, Modem, Internet, SSD,... add-ons
    • Pentium SBC Open-Frame Station: Touch Screen, Wireless Telemetry Through RS232, Modem and Internet Ready
    • National Instruments DAQ System (Parallel Port): 8 12-bit Analog Inputs, 2 12-bit Analog Outputs, 24 Digital I/Os, 2 16-bit counters
    • National Instruments DAQ System (Serial Port): 3 12-bit Analog Inputs, 1 12-bit Analog Outputs, 24 Digital I/Os, 1 16-bit counters
    • Z-World Microcontrollers: PK1200, PK1500, PK2200
    • Parallax Stamp Controllers Stations: Basic Stamp I, Basic Stamp II, PIC Controllers
    • Fast Prototyping Station: XILINX FPGA Evaluation Board, Universal Chip Programmer
  • Software:
    • Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT
    • Microsoft Visual Studio Suite
    • National Instruments LabVIEW
    • XILINX FPLD
• Need Help, Contact me
  • If you need any help:
    • See me in my office hours
    • Call me in my office 561-297-3182. DO NOT LEAVE VOICE MESSAGES.
    • Send me email for questions or to schedule an appointment. Make sure the subject starts with 'DAQ-'.
    • Call my cell 1888-4BASSEM, please as the last hope and be conservative on time.
• Resources and Important Links
  • If you need electronic components, check with Mr. Hank VanSant (room SE 340) before you buy. The CSE Senior Project lab (room SE 324) also has some components, check with Mr. Ali Abul-Humos before you use any thing in this room.
  • Outside Resources