Portable — Standalone virtual instruments

This paper introduces the concept of portability in virtual instruments (PVI) and conducts an exhaustive analysis on different methods of configuring the portable instruments. It also elaborates the working principle of portable virtual instrument - functional as well as method of reconfiguration. It also conducts an analysis on performance and efficiency of virtual instrument (VI) when programmed using two different methodologies - using a hardware description language (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language-VHDL) and using Matlab (Simulink). The results are elaborated. The applications of such instruments are also illustrated.