Training - Courses

Objective: Understand the terminology related to test and measurement and verify the functionality of the training hardware.

• Company introduction
• Expected Background
• Terminology
• Setting up and testing Hardware

Objective: Create analog input object and acquire data using the Data Acquisition Toolbox.

• Basic data acquisition concepts
• Getting help
• Examining hardware resources
• Device objects
• Creating Analog Inputs
• Acquiring data
• Previewing and extracting data
• Working with toolbox objects

Objective: Create an Analog Output (AO) object and understand digital I/O.

• Creating an AO object
• Display summary
• Adding channels
• Outputting Data
• Properties
• Digital I/O Overview
• Creating a digital I/O object
• Reading and writing values

Objective: Understand and use trigger events, measurement resolution, data logging and simultaneous I/O. Note: The actual topics covered in this section will be determined based upon student input.

• Analog input events and callbacks
• Triggering
• Optimizing measurement resolution and engineering units
• Logging data to disk
• Analog output events and callbacks
• Simultaneous I/O

Objective: Understand what instrument control is and how the toolbox can be used for communicating and controlling hardware instruments.

• Instrument control applications
• Instrument control components
• Creating a GPIB object
• Communicating with the instruments

Objective: Understand what the Image Acquisition Toolbox can be used for.

• Acquire Image Data Into MATLAB
• Access Hardware Settings
• Live Video Acquisition
• AVI File Logging

Objective: Review MATLAB concepts that are fundamental to using the Data Acquisition Toolbox and the Instrument Controls Toolbox.

• Creating and Using Matrices
• Basic Plotting
• Writing script and function M-files
• Use of Structures and Cell Arrays
• Review of Handle Graphics
• Working with Objects
• Callbacks