A distributed virtual lab: for practical activities in electronics

  • Authors:

  • Jean-Pierre Gerval;Yann Le Ru

  • Affiliations:

  • Institut Supérieur de l'Electronique et du Numérique - Brest, Brest, France;Institut Supérieur de l'Electronique et du Numérique - Brest, Brest, France

  • Venue:
  • CATE '07 Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper sets out a distributed virtual reality application intended to practical activities in electronics: circuit design and simulation. The distributed virtual environment offers virtual components and devices (resistors, capacitors, transistors, generators and oscilloscopes) described in a standard Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) format. Users are enabled to choose components and build a circuit. The simulation of the circuit is done using the SPICE programme that is a general-purpose circuit simulation programme for non-linear dc, non-linear transient, and linear ac analyses. The implementation is based on VRML and Java as languages and Cortona VRML plug-in from ParallelGraphics. The distribution of virtual worlds is obtained using DeepMatrix as environment server.