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Virtual Instrumentation

Virtual instrumentation uses customizable software and modular hardware to create user-defined measurement systems called virtual instruments, which offer more versatility than traditional hardware instruments with pre-defined, hard-coded functions. A synthetic instrument is a type of virtual instrument defined purely in software to perform synthesis, analysis, or measurement on generic hardware. Virtual instrumentation has grown since the 1970s by leveraging technologies like PCs and analog-to-digital converters along with software packages that make development easier for non-programmers.

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Virtual Instrumentation

Virtual instrumentation uses customizable software and modular hardware to create user-defined measurement systems called virtual instruments, which offer more versatility than traditional hardware instruments with pre-defined, hard-coded functions. A synthetic instrument is a type of virtual instrument defined purely in software to perform synthesis, analysis, or measurement on generic hardware. Virtual instrumentation has grown since the 1970s by leveraging technologies like PCs and analog-to-digital converters along with software packages that make development easier for non-programmers.

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Virtual instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement

hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments.

Traditional hardware instrumentation systems are made up of pre-defined hardware components,


such as digital multimeters and oscilloscopes that are completely specific to their stimulus,
analysis, or measurement function. Because of their hard-coded function, these systems are more
limited in their versatility than virtual instrumentation systems. The primary difference between
hardware instrumentation and virtual instrumentation is that software is used to replace a large
amount of hardware. The software enables complex and expensive hardware to be replaced by
already purchased computer hardware; e. g. analog-to-digital converter can act as a hardware
complement of a virtual oscilloscope, a potentiostat enables frequency response acquisition and
analysis in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with virtual instrumentation.

The concept of a synthetic instrument is a subset of the virtual instrument concept. A synthetic
instrument is a kind of virtual instrument that is purely software defined. A synthetic instrument
performs a specific synthesis, analysis, or measurement function on completely generic,
measurement agnostic hardware. Virtual instruments can still have measurement specific
hardware, and tend to emphasize modular hardware approaches that facilitate this specificity.
Hardware supporting synthetic instruments is by definition not specific to the measurement, nor
is it necessarily (or usually) modular.

Leveraging commercially available technologies, such as the PC and the analog-to-digital


converter, virtual instrumentation has grown significantly since its inception in the late 1970s.
Additionally, software packages like National Instruments' LabVIEW and other graphical
programming languages helped grow adoption by making it easier for non-programmers to
develop systems.

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