Digital Instrumentation
Code
11520
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Física
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
José Luís Constantino Ferreira, Pedro Manuel Cardoso Vieira
Weekly hours
5
Total hours
70
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The aim of this course is to give to the students skills to built an acquisition system in its different components: transducer, signal conditioning, ADC and computer control and signal processing.
Prerequisites
Electronics
Applied Electronics
Introduction to Programming
Instrumentation I
Subject matter
1. Hardware interfaces. Data acquisition boards and programmable microcontrollers. Microcontrollers programming. Serial communication.
2. Software interfaces. ''''G'''' programming language (LabVIEW). Control and data acquisition. Serial communication.
Bibliography
- Princípios de Electrónica, Albert Paul Malvino, McGraw-Hill
- The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz et al, Cambridge University Press
- LabVIEW programing, data acquisition and analysis, Beyton & Jeffrey, Prentice Hall
- Introdução à Instrumentação Médica, José Higino Correia, João Paulo Carmo, Lidel, 2013
Teaching method
There will be a weekly one-hour lecture for the presentation and discussion of concepts to be used in laboratory sessions.
The weekly laboratory sessions have a duration of four hours. During each session there will be some periods for discussing concepts to be applied.
Each class will have a maximum of twenty students divided into ten groups of two students each.
Each group will have a workbench with a test bench (with breadboard, several voltage sources, signal generator, etc.), oscilloscope, multimeter, adjustable voltage and current power sources, signal generator, computer (with software LabVIEW) and a Arduino Uno board.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is made by written tests and an evaluation of the final project. The final grade is obtained using the following weightings:
25% - Programming microcontrollers test score;
25% - LabVIEW programming test score;
50% - Project evaluation score.
The final project is evaluated by a demonstration of operation (35%) and by a written report (15%).
The scores are assigned on a scale from zero to twenty values. The intermediate calculations will be made with the scores rounded to one decimal.
To be admitted to the final examination is necessary a number of attendance greater than or equal to two-thirds of the number of practical classes, have a weighted average of the tests scores greater than or equal to 9.5 and get a rating greater than or equal to 9.5 points on project evaluation.