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Virtual Istrumentation

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Traditional instruments and instrumentation have been replaced at an increasing pace by hardware/software mixed measurement-oriented systems. The software component gives the hardware extended measuring capabilities and the instruments are thus named virtual instruments. This chapter deals with virtual instruments and with the different forms of their implementation. Both the hardware and software components of a virtual instruments are detailed. A short reference to virtual laboratories is also included.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico DEEC UTL, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

    Octavian Postolache, Pedro S. Girão & José M.D. Pereira

  2. Escola Superior de Tecnologia, IPS, Setübal

    Octavian Postolache & José M.D. Pereira

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  1. Metrologica (INRIM), Divisione Termodinamica, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca, Strada delle Cacce 73, Torino, 10135, Italy

    Franco Pavese

  2. MSC , Module 13 , National Physics Laboratory , Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, United Kingdom

    Alistair B. Forbes

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Postolache, O., Girão, P.S., Pereira, J.M. (2009). Virtual Istrumentation. In: Pavese, F., Forbes, A. (eds) Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4804-6_13

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