Application of a Reconfigurable Platform for the Education of Electronic Control Loops

Data acquisition and signal generation systems are basic building blocks of electronic control loops. They usually have fixed structures, whose functionality cannot be modified. In an educational context, students can only modify some of their functional parameters and check the effect of such changes on the generation and acquisition processes. In a previous paper, a reconfigurable generation and acquisition system has been presented, which not only covers these basic educational tasks, but also allows students to test different structures and to choose the most suitable for a given application. In this paper, its practical application for the education of electronic control loops is presented.