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Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kakkanad

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to take this opportunity as our privilege to thank all those whose persistent contributions and suggestions have helped us in the fulfillment of this project work. First and foremost, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our project guide, Mr. Binil .B John, who was always there to help us with proper guidance and unstinted support. We also give special thanks to Mr. Avinash, our project guide who inspired us always. He provided us with valuable suggestions during the course of our work, for the successful completion of the project. He was always there to help us and to guide us properly. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. P.R.Madhava Panicker, Head of the Department of Instrumentation who provided us with the lab facilities and guided us along the schedule path. We would like to give a special thanks to Prof. S. Ramkumar former Head of the Department of Instrumentation who gave us the idea of an industrial project. He played the most important role in our tie up with the company Procsys. We also thank him for providing motivational guidance and teaching us the engineering strategies in designing and execution of this project. We also thank the company Procsys, for whom we are doing the data acquisition module. The company’s officials were always there to help us and provided the technical know how about the project. We are especially thankful to our seniors Shajeer Hussein,Pradul Divakar and Arun Ghosh, who were indeed a great help in getting our programming procedures completed. Their constructive ideas and timely review of our progress have resulted in several improvements in our project. Last but not the least, we would like to give special acknowledgement to the efforts of all our teachers, lab staff Mr. Suraj, Mr. Pradeep,

Mr. Joe, Mr. Jaison, Mr.

Gince Mon, Mr. Roy as well as all our friends who helped us in making this project possible and above all to Almighty, whose grace rendered this endeavor a success.

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Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kakkanad

ABSTRACT

We are doing a project for a company PROCSYS (Processor Systems India Pvt. Ltd.). ProcSys today is a leading design and engineering services company in India, offering both complete and componentized solutions in embedded systems, product realization and application software. The main project we have selected is developing a DATA ACQUISITION MODULE. Project team consists of 13 members – 5 people for the hardware design and 8 people for developing compatible software. The software group is further divided into two, for developing stack and driver software for the data acquisition module.

AIM To design and develop a PC based Data Acquisition system in which a data is acquired and converted to digital value using ADC and serially communicated to PC from a microcontroller for displaying.

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