FSAE Instrumentation Project

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FSAE Instrumentation Project

• Meeting 7 2/28/2008

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Necessary Acronyms

• FPGA Field programmable gate array
• I/O Input/Output
• cRIO Compact Reconfigurable I/O
• LabVIEW Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation
  Engineering Workbench
• FTP File transfer protocol
• USB Universal serial bus
• VR Voltage Regulator

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System Diagram FSAE Instrumentation
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Recent Progress

• No road tests (again)
• Wiring harness progress updated diagrams
• Circuit - Accelerometer
• LABVIEW front panel tab for voltage monitoring.

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Rear Box (Top)
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Rear Box (Bottom)
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Front Box (updated)
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Wiring Harness (Accelerometer)
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Current Outlook

• Accelerometer
• Auto-calibrate in LabVIEW
• Fine tune
• Road Test (postponed)
• Pressure, temp, accelerometer
• Wiring Harness
• Power and voltage
• More New Sensors (5)