Netbook + NI DA Make for Low-Cost Virtual Instrumentation

摘要

Since the introduction of the first PC in the early 1970s, engineers, scientists, and professionals have embraced its ability to simplify their daily tasks. PCs evolved from an academic and hobbyist contraption to a powerful platform, helping reduce product-development time, automate repetitive tasks, advance computationally intensive science, and more.rnInstrumentation and data logging have also significantly evolved since the early days of large, single-function desktop boxes. Virtual instrumentation replaces traditional boxed instruments by combining a software-defined PC-based system with modular analog and digital data acquisition (DAQ) hardware-a solution called virtual instruments.