THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN INSTRUMENTS TOWARD VIRTUAL DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES
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https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.6.2.433Keywords:
Virtual Instrument, Distributed Instruments, DSP techniques, Measurement uncertaintyAbstract
During the last decades, Digital Signal Processing techniques and devices have undergone an impressive evolution that led their performance to increase manifold. One of the fields that has greatly benefited of this evolution is that of instrumentation and measurement. DSP-based techniques are presently the most employed techniques in industrial and scientific measurement applications, so that modern instruments are actually computers with dedicated interfaces and dedicated software. The full exploitation of the computing features has led to the development of the Virtual Instruments, and, more recently, to the development of Distributed Instruments. This paper is aimed at briefly discussing the architecture of the modern Virtual, Distributed Instruments, some of their most significant applications and the major metrological problems raised by these systems.References
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