Learning by Doing with National Instruments Development Boards (PDF)

Dr. Jivan Shrikrishna Parab is Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics at Goa University, India. He completed his PhD from the same university with the thesis titled "Development of Novel Embedded DSP Architecture for Non-Invasive Glucose Analysis". He received his M.Sc. (2005) and (2003) B.Sc. in electronics degree from Goa University. He has co-authored three books, published by Springer. The details of the books are: Practical aspects of embedded system design using microcontrollers and Exploring C for Microcontrollers: A hands on Approach and Hands-on Experience with Altera FPGA Development Boards.He has published several papers in National and International level journals and conferences. Presently he is member of faculty board and Library committee of Goa University. Recently he has been awarded with the Visvesaraya Young Faculty award of Rs. 38 lakhs by Govt. of India.

Ingrid Anne Nazareth born in Sharjah, U.A.E. is currently working as Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics at Goa University, India. She completed her PhD from the same university with the thesis titled "Estimation of Human Blood cholesterol". She completed her Masters in Electronics having secured the 1st place and is an awardee of the 'IV SERC School in Physics Gold Medal'. She was appointed a project fellow in the project "Design of Hyperspectral Smart Sensors using soft-core processors and IP cores". She was also a visiting faculty at the Goa University. Her research interest is in the field of Biomedical Electronics. She has attended a number of National Symposiums and Conferences where she has presented her research work.

Dr. Rajendra S. Gad is Professor of Electronics at Goa University. He received B.Sc. (Physics) and M.Sc. (Electronics) degrees from Goa University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. He worked for his PhD. in areas of non-invasive measurements to understand problem of human body Glucose measurement in2009. His group was judge