The ELVIS Lab is based on the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) hardware platform and is used to perform measurements on a variety of electronic devices and circuits. It is a LabVIEW-based design and prototype environment for university science and engineering laboratories. NI ELVIS consists of a LabVIEW-based virtual instrument suite, a multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) device and bench-top workstation with a prototype board. NI ELVIS functions as a three-part system. The ELVIS workstation interfaces with National Instruments LabVIEW software and an NI data acquisition (DAQ) device to perform measurements and transmit signals.
The ELVIS workstation can be manipulated by users either from the built-in control panel located on the front of the workstation, or programmatically through the included NI ELVIS software suite. The workstation also comes with a removable prototype board with over 2800 tie points. This board can be used to build electrical circuits and connect them to the programmatically-controlled instruments that come with ELVIS. In addition to variable power supplies that are included in the instrument suit, the board also offers built in 15 Volts and +5 Volts power supplies, which can be used to build a wide array of circuits.
| Topics/Standards it Teaches: | Electricity & Magnetism, Circuits |
| Correlating High School Course: | Physics (resistor-only circuits), AP Physics B (resistor-only & capacitor-only circuits), and AP Physics C (resistor-only, capacitor-only, RC, RL, RLC circuits) |
| Interaction Mode: | Asynchronous |
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