This book is about the Arduino microcontroller and the Arduino concept. The visionary Arduino team of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles,Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis launched a new innovation in microcontroller hardware in 2005, the concept of open source hardware. Their approach was to openly share details of microcontroller-based hardware design platforms to stimulate the sharin...

Embedded systems in robotics or mechatronics need flexibility since they are working in dynamic environments. We consider an embedded modular multi-microcontroller system. Each module includes a microcontroller and special purpose hardware like a motor driver. Usually a change of the embedded software necessitates a direct access to all the devices (microcontrollers) to reload the code. To over...

This paper describes the design and development of a low cost Data Acquisition System (DAS) using PIC18LF4553 microcontroller for real time data acquisition. The designed DAS has 4 analog input channels having 12-bit resolution and was interfaced through the USB port of the PC. The interface to the PC is basically a USB based virtual serial port emulation using FT232R, a USB to serial UART inte...

The focus of this paper is to present a low-cost and simple approach to designing intelligent home system using the concept of mobile-to-machine and machine-to-mobile communication. First, we develop a general purpose electronic circuit design that can control and monitor a variety of home appliances with interface that can be plugged into GSM handset unit. The design based on PLC comprises mic...

This paper presents the design and development of a low power embedded system for the measurement and monitoring of physiological parameters like body temperature, respiration, blood pressure and ECG. The design is developed around a low power microcontroller MSP430 from Texas Instruments. A wireless sensor module is used to transfer the data from microcontroller to the PC and a graphical user ...

This report presents the results of Single Event Effect (SEE) characterization testing of the Intel 87C51FC microcontroller for use in Space Station Freedom (SSF). The 87C51FC exhibited 4 types of SEE: RAM upset and three types of system errors, i.e., reset, latchup, and power cycle (a condition not correctable by the onboard watchdog timer). The microcontroller cross sections and response rate...

This paper describes a framework for test-case generation for microcontroller binary programs using abstract interpretation techniques. The key idea of our approach is to derive program invariants a priori, and then use backward analysis to obtain test vectors that are executed on the target microcontroller. Due to the structure of binary code, the abstract interpretation framework is based on ...

In the past, adding speech recording and playback capability to a product meant using a digital signal processor or a specialized audio chip. Now, using a simplified Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) algorithm, these audio capabilities can be added to any PIC® microcontroller or DSC digital signal controller. This application note will cover the ADPCM compression and decompres...

In this paper, we present a low power high temperature 80C51 microcontroller. The low power optimizations are applied at gate and architectural level, by using extensive clock and data gating, and by completely redesigning the micro-architecture. We also present original clock gating techniques: pre-computed clock gating. To validate these techniques, extensive comparisons with other realizatio...

In this paper, we describe a recently developed DC motor position control experimental setup that can be accessed via the Internet. The experiment consists of two primary elements communicating with each other: i) a server consisting of a low-cost microcontroller, Parallax’s 40-pin Basic Stamp 2 (BS2P40), interfaced with an embedded ethernet IC, Cirrus Logic’s Crystal CS8900A, and ii) a client ...