ABSTRACT
Hands-on practice laboratory experience is an essential component for effective engineering education. Thanks to the recent technological advancement, remote and virtual laboratories are becoming more and more popular. The study presented in the current paper is focused on developing a student board that can be used by both teachers and students in the education process. For this board, several PSoC™ 6 applications have been developed, to provide students hands-on experience with various electronic basic concepts, which they can later practice by developing their own applications. Although many applications can be demonstrated using this board, in this paper the design and development of two practical applications is presented - LabVIEW Control of RGB Led Intensity and Signal Generation and Acquisition with LabVIEW Display. Those two applications are both using the PSoC 6 microcontroller and were prototyped on the NI ELVIS II device. The developed board has the main advantage of being an inexpensive mixed signal platform to teach important concepts in electronics embedded system laboratories, and it will suit well the educational needs of the post-COVID era. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
ABSTRACT
Working and learning remotely has been a rising and steadily increasing phenomenon. Of particular interest is the conducting of laboratory experiments over remote facilities. The ever-evolving electronic systems application requirements and the dynamic operating environments have necessitated the need for configurable systems. Internet of Things (IoT) is now driving the industrial revolution 4.0 and hence learning remotely is inevitable. In the same vein, configurable remote laboratories are an important aspect of the electronic engineering revolution. Configurability enables laboratory platforms to run with multiple sets of hardware and to design systems capable of handling future developments and plugins, bringing more support to students performing laboratory work during the Covid-19 era. This is a study to develop a relatively inexpensive, configurable, and cloud-based remote laboratory platform for electronic engineering students. The laboratory platform provides real-time interaction with two myRIO devices. The devices are used as the instructor's hardware experimental setup and are in the faculty laboratory and functioning as IoT nodes. LabVIEW myRIO toolkit was used to design the finite state machines which contain the lab applications. Each device consists of a tri-state finite state machine with each state being a laboratory session. Six basic electronic engineering experiments were used, and students can access them from any internet-connected device through common browsers. The system can be configured to have more myRIO devices and more experiments per device. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
ABSTRACT
Working and learning remotely has been a rising and steadily increasing phenomenon. Of particular interest is the conducting of laboratory experiments over remote facilities. The ever-evolving electronic systems application requirements and the dynamic operating environments have necessitated the need for configurable systems. Internet of Things (IoT) is now driving the industrial revolution 4.0 and hence learning remotely is inevitable. In the same vein, configurable remote laboratories are an important aspect of the electronic engineering revolution. Configurability enables laboratory platforms to run with multiple sets of hardware and to design systems capable of handling future developments and plugins, bringing more support to students performing laboratory work during the Covid-19 era. This is a study to develop a relatively inexpensive, configurable, and cloud-based remote laboratory platform for electronic engineering students. The laboratory platform provides real-time interaction with two myRIO devices. The devices are used as the instructor’s hardware experimental setup and are in the faculty laboratory and functioning as IoT nodes. LabVIEW myRIO toolkit was used to design the finite state machines which contain the lab applications. Each device consists of a tri-state finite state machine with each state being a laboratory session. Six basic electronic engineering experiments were used, and students can access them from any internet-connected device through common browsers. The system can be configured to have more myRIO devices and more experiments per device. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.