CEC Semester Nine 2016

Getting all that data from place to place is an important element of the whole IoT system but is not generally visible. In many cases, we will have custom devices involved close to the things we are controlling. This class will discuss systems...

To set the stage for what is to come, this opening class will look at the types of things that are out there. There are many IoT application areas, spanning industrial, medical, consumer, etc. The data analyses that are done will depend on the...

This penultimate class will dig into the details of the BLDC implementation and the debug and testing phases critical to MCU-based motor control design. The Microchip demo kit's capabilities will be explored in detail.

In our final class, we will describe other types of motor control implementations and provide links to resources for speeding development.

In this session, students will learn, in detail, the key brushless DC motor algorithm used in the hands-on design, including code.

This class will provide a background on the development environment typically found for MCU-based motor control designs. Attendees will learn the particulars of Microchip's DM330015 kit and target MCU.

This class will provide a quick refresher and overview of the key types of motors and motor control algorithms used with microcontroller-based designs.

The bootloader development process is riddled with stumbling blocks. In this session, firsthand, real-world experiences with designing and debugging bootloader applications, and how to quickly recognize some of the most common and worst bugs, will...

Implementing a bootloader in C is no trivial exercise. This session will examine the inner workings of a bootloader and walk attendees through the setup of a bootloader implementation. Important concepts, such a vector table locations, application...

In this session attendees will go through the process of developing a test application for use with a bootloader. The major components, such as linker setup, watchdog maintenance, flash access, and system rebooting, will be discussed in detail...