Educational Universal Analog Circuit Measurement Laboratory with FPAA

In engineering and electrical engineering higher education, in its practice-oriented laboratory training background, the use of virtual methods is very common, in an environment where the main goal is of course to strengthen and develop practical attitudes.Without neglecting the importance of the computer-based possibilities of simulation and emulation and their practical relevance, there is a danger, one could say with some malice, that we are using virtual tools to train engineers who will be fully capable of solving virtual problems virtually.To avoid all this, we continue to believe that it is important to use real instruments in electrical engineering training, whether they are measuring instruments or electronic circuits to be measured. In this paper, we aim to present an application that supports analog electrical engineering, the operation of analog circuits, where we offer a high degree of flexibility to teachers and students in a real electronic circuit measurement environment.Thus, we will continue to use real instruments, generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, measuring instruments, but we will design the object to be measured using FPAA (Field Programmable Analog Array) devices, by creating different analog circuits to be measured. This allows us to set different circuit parameters, even per measurement place, for the same circuit.