University buys LabVIEW-based design and prototyping suites
16 July 2003
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University of Pretoria, one of South Africa's most reputable universities, has purchased 100 NI Elvis systems along with the LabVIEW software departmental licence for its Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering.
National Instruments' NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), is a LabVIEW-based design and prototyping environment for university engineering and science laboratories. NI ELVIS allows students to simultaneously learn engineering theory and put it into practice in areas such as electric circuits, signal processing, communications, control systems, mechanical measurements and mechatronics.
The NI ELVIS system
Over 800 University of Pretoria engineering students each year will use the NI Elvis system and learn first hand the latest technologies in test and measurement.
"The product development collaboration we have had with leading science and engineering educators, including those at California State University, who originally developed the concept and design of NI ELVIS, has resulted in a product that precisely meets the needs of engineering educators," said Ray Almgren, NI vice president of product marketing and academic relations. "Beta customers and early adopters of NI ELVIS have had extremely positive feedback on its design and the impact it will have on their classroom and laboratory instruction."
Lugging the last of the 100 NI ELVIS student stations to the University of Pretoria’s Department of Electrical Engineering as part of the modernisation of its electronics laboratory for first- and second-year students
Being offered to universities for R15 000 (VAT exclusive), NI ELVIS consists of LabVIEW-based virtual instruments, a multifunction data acquisition device and a custom-designed benchtop workstation with a prototyping board. This combination provides a ready-to-use suite of common laboratory instruments including an oscilloscope, function generator, digital multimeter and programmable power supplies along with a bode analyser, dynamic signal analyser and arbitrary waveform generator. Because it is based on LabVIEW and provides complete data acquisition and prototyping capabilities, the system is ideal for integrating virtual instrumentation into academic coursework from lower-division classes to advanced project-based curriculum, says NI.
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