[IDLE] Dallas User Group Community

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

National Instruments and Texas Instruments Deliver Affordable, Portable Educational Device for Engineering Students

National Instruments today announced the release of the NI myDAQ portable instrumentation device for students in university engineering  courses. NI myDAQ advances engineering education by making it possible  for students to experience engineering outside of the lab, in their dorm  room or anywhere they choose, at any time. The device is designed by  National Instruments and features Texas Instruments analog circuits  including data converters, amplifiers and interface and power management  components. NI myDAQ hardware integrates with NI LabVIEW graphical development software to help reverse the trend of rising  educational costs by giving students hands-on interaction with real  analog circuits, sensor measurements and signal processing for about the  price of an engineering textbook.

“Students need exposure to real circuits and hardware, but the problem  for engineering professors is trying to meet the increasing cost of  providing real electronics with continually tighter budgets,” said Dr.  Tony Ambler, chairman of electrical and computer engineering at The  University of Texas at Austin. “NI myDAQ is inexpensive enough for every  student to have their own, plug it into their laptop at home, in the  dorm or in the park, and experiment with the real electronics all around  them, without using lab time or lab equipment.”

Compact enough to fit in a student’s pocket and powered by USB  connection, NI myDAQ provides a solution for college engineering  professors who want their students to experiment during homework and  beyond, through a student-owned measurement, signal processing and  control device. NI myDAQ bridges the gap between theory and real-world  practice by providing students eight LabVIEW software-based instruments  including a digital multimeter (DMM), oscilloscope, function generator,  Bode analyzer, dynamic signal analyzer, arbitrary waveform generator,  digital reader and digital writer. Students can use all these  instruments to perform many laboratory-style experiments.

When combined with LabVIEW on a PC, NI myDAQ delivers a complete  solution for hands-on learning of core concepts in engineering curricula  that include analog circuits, sensor measurements and signals and  systems courses. Multiple universities throughout the United States  already are developing NI myDAQ curricula, and National Instruments is  making these and other resources available to educational institutions  and students at www.ni.com/mydaq.

NI myDAQ also integrates with the NI Multisim circuits education environment to provide a far-reaching educational  platform. The device includes the eight software-based instruments, DMM  cables, an audio cable and a reusable storage tray. LabVIEW Student Edition software and Multisim Student Edition software also are available with the device at a significant discount to students.

To learn more about NI myDAQ, readers can visit www.ni.com/mydaq.

0 Kudos
Message 1 of 1
(4,504 Views)