Teach Power Electronics

The TI Power Electronics application Board for NI ELVIS III provides a hands-on platform for teaching power electronics and power management. Teaching resource topics include MOSFET switching, buck converters, error amplification, inverters, AC-DC converters, and transformers.The QNET DC Motor Control Board illustrates the fundamentals of DC motor controls using the NI ELVIS platform and NI LabVIEW software. It can quickly and easily be configured to control motor position and speed as well as modeling experiments. Courseware topics include modeling, qualitative PD control, PD control to specifications, qualitative PI control, PI control to specifications, and tracking and disturbance rejection.

Teach Digital Electronics

The Digilent Digital Electronics Board for NI ELVIS III provides hands-on, interactive experiments in digital logic. Students can use Multisim and online teaching resources to program the FPGA graphically to learn the fundamentals of digital electronics.The QNET DC Motor Control Board illustrates the fundamentals of DC motor controls using the NI ELVIS platform and NI LabVIEW software. It can quickly and easily be configured to control motor position and speed as well as modeling experiments. Courseware topics include modeling, qualitative PD control, PD control to specifications, qualitative PI control, PI control to specifications, and tracking and disturbance rejection.

Teach Energy Systems

The Quanser Energy Systems Board for NI ELVIS III provides experiments for system-level concepts of power electronics and energy conversion. Teaching resource topics include converting DC power from wind, solar, and hydroelectric plants into three-phase AC power.The QNET DC Motor Control Board illustrates the fundamentals of DC motor controls using the NI ELVIS platform and NI LabVIEW software. It can quickly and easily be configured to control motor position and speed as well as modeling experiments. Courseware topics include modeling, qualitative PD control, PD control to specifications, qualitative PI control, PI control to specifications, and tracking and disturbance rejection.