SCILAB: The Limit is the Sky

SCILAB: The Limit is the Sky

The objective of this Blog is to give you fare idea about the Scilab, Application areas of Scilab, several projects where Scilab is in use, and features available on Scilab India portal (http://www.scilab.in).

Scilab is a free/libre and open source scientific software package for numerical computations that provides a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Since 1994, the software has been distributed freely, along with the source code, via the Internet. It is currently used in educational and industrial environments around the world.

Scilab cab be used in following areas.

Labs Migration Project

Labs Migration Project is the project in which we help you in shifting labs from MATLAB  to Scilab?

We have already shifted following labs from MATLAB to Scilab:

Delhi University

1. Signals and Systems
2. Numerical Methods

SASTRA University

1. Signal Processing

Useful Contents & Features on Scilab Website

1. Links

We have some community created links for useful documents on Scilab, Scicos and Xcos. We welcome you to create a new link and rank the existing links. However, please log in first.

http://scilab.in/links

2. Forum and Blogs

We have facilities like Forum for discussion, Moodle and Blogs for sharing ideas.

http://www.scilab.in/forum

http://scilab.in/blog

3. Features of Scilab

One can find several features of Scilab 

http://www.scilab.in/scilabfeatures

4. Online Test

We have online test facility to conduct the test during the Scilab workshop 

5. Downloads

One can download latest version of Scilab from following link.

http://scilab.in/DownloadScilab

6. Latest News

In this section one can get update about the happening related to Scilab worldwide.

http://www.scilab.in/latestnews

7. Spoken Tutorials

We have several spoken tutorials on Scilab, there is a link called "Spoken Tutorials" on our website which will redirect you to the following link

http://spoken-tutorial.org/Study_Plans_Scilab

Scilab is also used in following project

Data Acquisition using Scilab

Data acquisition systems (DAQ or DAS) typically convert analog waveforms into digital values for processing.The components of data acquisition systems include: Sensors, Signal conditioning circuitry, Analog-to-digital converters, Digital to Analog Converters etc. A DAQ hardware interfaces between the analog signal and a PC. The hardware could be in the form of modules that can be connected to the computer's ports (parallel, serial, USB, etc.) or cards connected to slots (PCI, PCI-Express, etc.) in the mother board.

Most of these DAQ hardware work only on Microsoft Windows environment and they require the use of proprietary software and drivers. Here, using a set of Spoken tutorials, we teach you to access these DAQ hardware in Linux using a FLOSS tool called Scilab. We have used Ubuntu Linux 10.04, kernel version 2.6.32-24. The version of Scilab required is 5.3.0 or higher. The DAQ hardware used in these tutorials are one among : Advantech PCI 1711, Measurement Computing PCI DAS-1002 and Measurement Computing PCI-DDA8/16.

For more details please visit following link.

http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/DAQ