The goal of this work is to describe a control procedure that simplifies the implementation and improves the performance of feedback active control on a planar structure. The article presents a design, development and experimental verification of an active feedback vibration control system of circular plate with the application of xPC Target platform. Vibrations of the plate are measured using MFC sensors. The control input is applied to the plate by a MFC disk, attached to the plate in its center. The plate vibrations were excited by a loudspeaker or by a second MFC actuator placed at a certain distance from the center of the disc.The basic philosophy is the off-line identification of the best model for the controlled process [1] and the subsequent synthesis of the controller. There are many classical strategies that can be used when a mathematical model is available, for instance, poles allocation or optimal control (LQR), used also by the authors [2, 3]. This article proposes an approach to design an effective controller for vibration suppression of a circular plate with the use of the pole placement method. For the considered system a linear discrete model obtained by parametric identification method for the data measured in a separate experiment has been designated. This model was used to develop the 6-th order digital controller which was implemented on xPC Target platform. Before implementation of the chosen control law design on real plant the simulations in Simulink/Matlab were performed. In order to investigate the influence of the implemented controller on the plate vibrations suppression the 3D scanning vibrometer has been used. The obtained simulation and experimental results, corresponding to the developed active vibration control system have been presented, compared and analyzed.