Learning The Microcontroller Embedded System Design

By Author: Vijay K Shetty
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If you want to design the microcontroller embedded system design then here are few important learning tips for you. These learning tips will help you in this case a lot.

Every person is exceptional through the knowledge he has obtained as well as the abilities. Knowledge points to the experience where ability specifies "time needed to solve a design trouble" It indicates that the knowledge of C-programming is not sufficient as one must have excellent ability to "examine plus solve the trouble statement". It is the solution as well as most significant feature and is required during working with any microcontroller based embedded system design. In indirect sense, this ability to solve troubles is identified as "Logic of creating solutions".

Microcontroller based embedded system design is amalgamation of hardware and software. Microcontroller is a miniature Integrated Chip which is known as IC and it also consists of the hardware division of the system. This tiny chip which is recognized as microcontroller comes together with competence to store a "Program" within it and it is entitled as software.

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... to be a product designer then you have to have both skills. Let's illustrate it through an example. Suppose you have been given an easy task to design as well as develop a product for displaying the room temperature. Following components are needed for this particular project. The temperature-sensor (e.g. LM35), A 16 chars by 2 lines (16x2) LCD display, A Microcontroller (e.g. ATmega8 AVR) to read the data from temperature sensor, DC Voltage regulator 5V (7805 based). If you have ready this set then its time to make a circuit or schematics for this project. It is the main point which you need to learn for microcontroller ATmega8.

In this way you can get the knowledge of the hardware attribute of this microcontroller and subsequently the software. The software writing use C-Language or Assembly.

One PC or Laptop which is installed with ISP Programmer hardware, target board or starter kit, IDE (development environment) and a number of books or reference guides or a Computer-based Tutorials. In this case, you have chosen ATmega8 microcontroller. It is completed by ATMEL plus bit controller. AVRstudio or WInAVR is used as IDE for writing a program. There are a lot of ISP programmers (hardware) accessible in the market.

Starter kit assists you to research and check your program by downloading the developed source code into the ATmega8-microcontroller. Reference manuals, Books and Computer-based tutorial also help you to get ongoing with the new as well as electrifying world of microcontrollers. There are more than a few other microcontrollers obtainable like 8051, PIC, ARM etc. Despite of that fact, price of the microcontroller is a vital factor also.

Vijay K Shetty, Platinum Level Author.
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