Tag - Microcontroller

Inside a Microcontroller

Microcontroller vs Microprocessor

The term microprocessor and microcontroller can be confusing for those who are new to this field. I recommend you to read our articles What is a Microcontroller ? and What is a Microprocessor ? to understand more about microcontroller and microprocessor. Both microcontroller and microprocessor are programmable multipurpose silicon chip, clock driven, register based, accepts binary data as input and provides output after processing it as per the instructions stored in the memory. Let's see the key differences between them. Intel Core...

April 25, 2020By Electronics, 1 CommentRead more...
Digital Alarm Clock using PIC Microcontroller and DS3234 RTC - Proteus Tool - Practical Implementation

Digital Alarm Clock using PIC Microcontroller and DS3234 RTC

Here is a digital alarm clock made using PIC 18F4520 Microcontroller and DS3234 RTC (Real Time Clock). This project is for educational purposes or can be used as a reference for integrating DS3234 RTC. DS3234 is a very accurate RTC IC with integrated on chip temperature compensated crystal oscillator. It can be integrated with a microcontroller using SPI bus. This project is developed using MPLAB XC8 compiler. Components Required PIC 18F4520 MicrocontrollerDS3234 RTC20MHz Crystal 4x3 Keypad16x2 LCD10KΩ preset5V buzzerLEDBC547 TransistorCapacitor...

April 11, 2020By Embedded, PIC Microcontroller, Projects, , , , , , , , , , 14 CommentsRead more...

What is a Microcontroller ?

A microcontroller is an integrated circuit (IC) which is small, low cost and self contained computer designed to handle a specific task in embedded systems. In simple words, a microcontroller (MCU or Microcontroller Unit) is a small computer integrated in to a single chip. We can also explain it as programmable silicon chip which is clock driven, register based, accepts input and provides output after processing it as per the instructions stored in the memory. A computer is a general...

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Flash Magic Tool

Flashing LPC2148 – ARM Microcontroller Tutorial – Part 2

In this tutorial we will learn how to flash an LPC2148 microcontroller using on-chip serial (UART) ISP bootloader with Flash Magic tool. Components Required LPC2148 ARM Microcontroller USB to UART converter with DTR and RTS outputs. You may also use ready to go boards like rhydoLABZ LPC2148 Stick. Connections LPC2148 ISP Serial UART Flashing Connections Circuit Diagram LPC2148 ISP Serial UART Flashing - Circuit Diagram Using Flash Magic Tool Above we seen how to make connections for serial ISP programming. In this section we will see...

January 15, 2020By ARM, ARM7, Tutorials, , , , 0 CommentsRead more...
Keil - Product Downloads

Installing Keil IDE – ARM Microcontroller Tutorial – Part 1

This is our first part of ARM microcontroller tutorial. In this article we will see how to setup development environment for ARM microcontroller LPC2148. We are using Keil IDE for this. Downloading IDE Go to "keil.com" Go to "Download" page Go to "Product Downloads" Go to MDK-Arm Fill the contact form and submit it. You will get the download link of Keil IDE Keil - Product Downloads Downloading Keil Legacy Support Go to legacy support's download page. Click on "Download Legacy Support for...

October 8, 2019By ARM, ARM7, Tutorials, , , 0 CommentsRead more...
Interfacing LCD with CloudX - Experiment

Interfacing LCD with CloudX Board

To have a good relationship between human world and machine world, display units plays a vital part. Displays allows us to know what’s happening in a device like the voltage, temperature, present status of the device and even device fault detection etc. LCD's have a very wide application in embedded systems and it is more preferred than seven segment displays. Alphanumeric LCDs are most commonly used in embedded projects since it is commonly available and easy to use. 16x2 LCD Display In...

October 23, 2018By CloudX, Tutorials, , , 0 CommentsRead more...
CloudX PIC Microcontroller Board - LED Blinking

Getting Started with CloudX Development Board

CloudX M633 is one of the popular PIC based microcontroller development board designed by ByteHub Embedded, it comes with over 500 library functions which makes it very easy for beginners to start with embedded systems. In this tutorial we will see how to write our first "Hello World" program to blink an LED using the popular CloudX M633 (PIC16F877A chip) development board. CloudX - PIC Microcontroller Development Board and SoftCard Components Required CloudX Microcontroller Board and SoftCard Light Emitting Diode (LED) Resistor...

October 19, 2018By CloudX, Tutorials, , , , 1 CommentRead more...
Home Automation using Bluetooth and Mobile App

Home Automation using Bluetooth and Mobile App

Technology is a never ending process. To be able to design a product using the current technology that will be beneficial to the lives of others is a huge contribution to the community. Generally in today’s modern world human beings are addicted to using modern equipment. So here we can perform home automation by using an Android App and Bluetooth as a wireless communication medium. Home automation not only refers to reduce human efforts but also energy efficiency and time saving.  Home...

December 23, 2017By Embedded, PIC Microcontroller, Projects, , , , , 8 CommentsRead more...
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