The use of microcontrollers in beginning programming classes has been found to increase student learning and enthusiasm. Microcontroller programming has been successfully used in advanced undergraduate courses as a way to reinforce previous learning and to practice design, and in beginning undergraduate courses to introduce basic programming concepts in an engaging and relevant manner. Based on...

This paper describes the development of a heart beat monitor system based on a microcontroller. The paper explains how a single-chip microcontroller can be usedto analyze heart beat rate in real-time. In addition, it allows doctors to get the heart beat and location of the patient by GSM every twenty four hours. It can also be used to control patients or athletic person over a long period. The ...

In this paper, the configurable microcontroller array based on the i8051 processor unit (PU) architecture is proposed. The use of well-known PU architecture simplifies the application programming. The designed microcontroller PU core has in 6 times higher instruction implementation speed, and in more than 2.5 times clock frequency than the original microcontroller. The proposed technique of map...

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In this paper, micro controller is used to control the thermal states of Flexinol wires which actuating legs of the insect-like legged robot. The design emphasizes mechanical simplicity as well as power and computational autonomy for lightweight walking robot applications. The kinematics workspace characteristics has been applied on to a test rig to examine and improve the motion feasibility wi...

Today, a highly integrated microcontroller can handle the functional control of these machines. To connect the microcontroller to the Internet, one must implement a protocol stack on the device. To function, this protocol usually requires a powerful processor, a complete operating system, and a large amount of memory. In this case, the implementation of a stand-alone Internet protocol stack cou...

Software simulators that emulate equivalent behavior of physical microcontrollers play an important role in the process of software development for embedded systems from an early development stage (e.g. when no target hardware is available) to the final verification process (e.g. used in combination with formal methods). Thus, much reliance is put on the correctness of these simulators. This pa...

A design of simple hardware circuit with different kind of fire sensors enables every user to use this wireless fire security system. The challenges in designing the nodes with various types of fire sensors are discussed and the methods to overcome design problems are also analyzed. The circuit is interfaced with the different types of sensor to sense different fire sources such as gas leakage,...