TY - JOUR A1 - Aliane, Nourdine T1 - Data acquisition and real-time control using spreadsheets: Interfacing Excel with external hardware Y1 - 2010 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/375 AB - Spreadsheets have become a popular computational tool and a powerful platform for performing engineering calculations. Moreover, spreadsheets include a macro language, which permits the inclusion of standard computer code in worksheets, and thereby enable developers to greatly extend spreadsheets’ capabilities by designing specific add-ins. This paper describes how to use Excel spreadsheets in conjunction to Visual Basic for Application programming language to perform data acquisition and real-time control. Afterwards, the paper presents two Excel applications with interactive user interfaces developed for laboratory demonstrations and experiments in an introductory course in control. KW - Informática LA - eng ER -