As our society continually embraces technology to greater and greater degrees, the need for engineers with the skills to develop microcontroller based systems is constantly growing. Microcontroller systems design courses are meant to equip students with the understanding, skills, and methods needed to design and develop systems built around a microcontroller core. When designing such a course, ...

Recent years have seen a steady increase in attention to communities as a source of both risk and protective factors for various individual outcomes. Psychological sense of community (PSOC) is one concept which can be important in describing the ways in which real and perceived aspects of community might mediate both individual and community outcomes. To understand the setting-specific interact...

One of the biggest challenges facing distance education programs is that of attrition. One potential way of reducing attrition is to foster a sense of community among students. Students who are emotionally and intellectually invested in each other and in their program are more likely to prosper in a multi-year distance program. This paper briefly explores those effects ascribed to community tha...

this paper describes the system design of a portable and economical mu rhythm based brain computer interface which employs cypress semiconductors programmable system on chip (psoc). by carrying out essential processing on the psoc, the use of an extra computer is eliminated, resulting in considerable cost savings. microsoft visual studio 2005 and psoc designer 5.01 are employed in developing th...

Proposed wireless sensor node is a highly flexible and programmable system on chip (PSoC) architecture along with integrated RF radio chip, which can be adapted to any IEEE 802.15.4 standard based protocol, working at the band of 2.4GHz. This can be accompanied by the RF antenna matched with the interface circuit for various kinds of sensors and peripherals to form a wireless sensor node. This ...

Aims: The aim of this research was to use Psychological Sense Community (PSOC) theory explore Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) children’s experiences school as community. Rationale: This paper is based on conceptualisations social justice which emphasise cultural recognition involving the full equal participation all groups in society. explores GRT children using PSOC a lens, provide insights fo...

The paper presents a chaos-based True Random Number Generator (TRNG) implemented in commercially available mixed-signal PSoC reconfigurable devices without any external components. Contrary to the traditionally used sources of randomness (eg various ”well-behaved” analog noise sources) it uses well-defined deterministic analog circuit that exhibits chaos. A new simple method of mapping the dete...

The purpose of this paper focuses on designing an intelligent, compact, reliable, and robust auxiliary vacuum brake system (VBS) with Kalman filter and self-diagnosis scheme. All of the circuit elements in the designed system are integrated into one programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) with entire computational algorithms implemented by software. In this system, three main goals are achieved: (a)...