Design and Implementation of Micro-Controller Training Kit with GUI Support

Microcontrollers are paramount in various aspects of engineering. It has a wide range of applications in modern day urbanization and smart cities, thus making it a needful part of education. Microcontroller training kits with pre performed hardware connections, while less cumbersome than having to u...

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Main Authors: Manoharan, Gautham, Thomas, Febin, Joseph, Eldho K., M., Jayadevan, K., Amaljith, C.V., Raghu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
LPC2148
microcontroller
PIC18
training kit
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Summary:Microcontrollers are paramount in various aspects of engineering. It has a wide range of applications in modern day urbanization and smart cities, thus making it a needful part of education. Microcontroller training kits with pre performed hardware connections, while less cumbersome than having to use an external board for connections, limit the user's knowledge of hardware interfacing. The practical sessions focus more on programming. While picking a training kit for learning, we face a tradeoff between convenience and awareness. This paper proposes a solution to tackle this problem with a new approach for the teaching of microcontroller courses. A microcontroller training kit that supports multiple microcontrollers, with GUI support is proposed. The GUI acts as a guide for the user to assist in hardware connection and programming. The proposed kit provides sockets to connect each component. The design is aimed at beginners to microcontroller programming while simultaneously catering to experts and industries.
ISSN:2325-9418
DOI:10.1109/INDICON45594.2018.8987006