In traditional Embedded Control Technology courses, students learn to develop assembly language programs to control peripherals, handle interrupts, and perform I/O operations is often difficult because students find the subject rather abstract when presented in a lecture format. In fact this Embedded Controller Technology (ECT) course is a compulsory course in any electrical or electronic field...

Realization of microcontroller based real time fire protection system is considered and described in the paper. Given solution is based on application of microcontroller AT89S8253. The system is consisted of set of sensors connected to control device (microcontroller module). Control, monitoring and diagnostic are performed via computer of PC type serially connected with control device. Charact...

In this study, parallel connection of synchronous generators has been achieved automatically by the monitoring parallel connection conditions with the microcontroller. For this reason, two synchronous generators which are rotated with direct current motors have been connected in parallel. Firstly, the conditions required for parallel connection has been observed with measuring tools. Then, a mi...

This proposed system uses an ultrasonic module interfaced to a microcontroller of 8051 family. An ultrasonic transducer comprising of a transmitter and receiver are used. The transmitted waves are reflected back from the object and received by the transducer again. The total time taken from sending the waves to receiving it is calculated by taking into consideration the velocity of sound. Then ...

This paper presents a real-time DC Motor speed controller design using a microcontroller-based network system. The design architecture was developed using two Phytec evaluation boards each having an Infineon eightbit C505C-L microcontroller. The system detects the realtime speed of the motor using the sensor device and then transfers data to the first Phytec board’s microcontroller using serial...

In this paper, one dimensional drift free attitude estimation system using accelerometer and gyroscope was studied. The proposed system fuses data from accelerometers and gyroscopes by means of a Kalman filter. A PIC microcontroller is used for estimating the angle value in the proposed system. Moreover, this controller does all data acquisition and interfacing tasks. The experimental results a...

This report represents the design and implementation of a skin temperature measurement system. The system aims to measure the skin temperature from a sensor and send it to the PC using a USB cable to display on screen. The data needs to be updated every second. The PIC18F4550 microcontroller has been used in this project to obtain data from the sensor and send it to the PC using USB 2.0 that ha...

This application note explains how to determine if a specific LCD panel is supported by the ÉlanTMSC300 microcontroller, and in what modes (CGA two-color or four-color graphics, CGA text, HGA graphics, HGA text); how to configure the ÉlanSC300 microcontroller to work with the LCD panel in those modes; and which signals need to be connected to the ÉlanSC300 microcontroller to properly drive the ...

In some of those applications, a dedicated Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Controller IC is used in conjunction with a microcontroller. In other applications, however, a dedicated SMPS Controller IC may be overkill. An alternative approach is to generate a low cost SMPS function in a smart microcontroller, such as the PIC16C620A. This Application Note shows a method of using the microcontroll...

This paper presents a personal computer (PC)-based data acquisition and control tool that uses a Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontroller, Matlab, and Simulink. Specifically, a library of PIC microcontroller functions for Simulink is created. Moreover, the PIC microcontroller and Matlab are merged, by exploiting their serial communication capability, to produce an inexpensive data ...