The National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) is a LabVIEW-based design and prototype environment for university science and engineering laboratories. NI ELVIS consists of a LabVIEW-based virtual instrument suite, a multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) device and bench-top workstation with a prototype board. NI ELVIS functions as a three-part system. The ELVIS workstation interfaces with National Instruments LabVIEW software and an NI data acquisition (DAQ)
device to perform measurements and transmit signals.
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The goal of the ELVIS iLab project is to use the ELVIS platform as a launching pad for guiding future iLab software development efforts in Africa, while enhancing the collaboration between MIT and African universities and adding value to the current iLabs architecture. Eventually, the experience accrued from these exchanges should form a basis for enabling OAU to become a hub for the development and deployment
of iLabs in Africa.
Portions of introduction above extracted from Samuel Gikandi's Thesis, "ELVIS iLab: A Flexible Platform for Online Laboratory Experiments in Electrical Engineering".