Hardware implementation of a real-time electromagnetic field analysis system for engineering education

In this paper, the authors implement a real-time electromagnetic field analysis system for an energy conversion laboratory. The work has been oriented to two specific directions. The first is continuing the development of the software, through the conversion of an existing program to match the newly acquired National Instruments package (FE software, ActiveX controls, and data acquisition hardware) keeping the same display format. The second is to manufacture and supply all the necessary hardware required to carry on satisfactorily the experiments and communicate with the computer.