The synchronous microcontroller is a common processor found in many embedded system. By using asynchronous design techniques, the performance of the microcontroller is increased. Through the simulation and existing synchronous design tools in the asynchronous design flow, a “clock enabling technique” is simulated and then implemented. The asynchronous architecture includes an ALU, a decoder, a ...

This book provides practicing scientists and engineers a tutorial on the fundamental concepts and use of microcontrollers. Today, microcontrollers, or single integrated circuit (chip) computers, play critical roles in almost all instrumentation and control systems. Most existing books are written for undergraduate and graduate students taking an electrical and/or computer engineering course. Fu...

The growing implementation of technology had significant impact on its methods and practice. One technology with such an impact is the ever growing use of wireless systems in hospitals, industries and biomedical institutions. The objective is to transfer processed real time signal over Bluetooth using PIC Microcontroller. This is applicable for monitoring certain parameters such as temperature,...

The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Sinc...

Microcontroller software typically consists of a few hundred lines of code only, but it is rather different from standard application code. The software is highly hardware and platform specific, and bugs are often a consequence of neglecting subtle specifications of the microcontroller architecture. Currently, there are hardly any tools for analyzing such software automatically. In this paper, ...

Abstract This paper proposed the microcontroller based vector impedance meter, which can be used to measure unidentified impedance of the system. The microcontroller read only four samples from two voltage signals, the first voltage is proportional to the voltage across the impedance while the second voltage is proportional to the current passing through it. A novel algorithm is then used to ge...

In traditional Embedded Control Technology courses, students learn to develop assembly language programs to control peripherals, handle interrupts, and perform I/O operations. However, students find the subject are diffcult as the subject is presented in a lecture format. Unfortunetly, this Embedded Controller Technology (ECT) course is a compulsory course in any electrical or electronic field ...

In this paper, a digital clock is designed where the microcontroller is used for timing controller and the font of the Bangla digits are designed, and programmed within the microcontroller. The design is cost effective, simple and easy for maintenance.

This paper presents the design of crack finding robot for finding cracks in railway tracks. Here PIC16F877A microcontroller is interfaced with Robot, Zigbee, GPS, LCD and IR sensors. The IR sensors are used to find crack in the railway track, and then GPS is used to find the location. If the microcontroller detects the crack, it immediately gets the location information using GPS and sends that...

In this paper the hardware implementation of intelligent Tic-Tac toy is presented. The implementation uses Graphical LCD (GLCD) touch screen and microcontroller. The microcontroller receives the player move from GLCD (displayed as X) and uses intelligent algorithm to analyze the move and choose the best counter move. The microcontroller displays the counter move on the screen as circle (O). The...