Microcontrollers. Beginning

Microcontrollers. Beginning Many of you have seen homemade devices, assembled on microcontrollers, and certainly all of you have used such factory-made devices. Microcontrollers eliminate the need to use a huge number of discrete components in the circuit and greatly simplifies the development, since the microcontroller operates in accordance with a program installed in it, which can always be adjusted and errors can be corrected at any time.However, most of those who want to focus on creating electronic devices on microcontrollers do not know where to start and are even more often deterred by complexity of creating such a device. You bet! It is not easy to make a board for the chip even with 30 outputs, and if there are 100 of such outputs and the microcontroller has not a DIP but a TQFP housing- then it all turns into a real quest. And that's just the beginning, because then you need to write a program in order to program the chip. It does sound quite intimidating. Laboratory benches manufactured by "Microelectronics" are designed to help you out here. Why are they attractive for beginners? There is a built-in programmer on the board, so you won't need to buy a separate expensive device. There are a lot of different elements installed which can be controlled by a microcontroller. As you acquire relevant knowledge board functionality can also be expanded by various additional modules - displays, digital potentiometers, device for reading/recording of memory cards, etc. A huge plus is that at the manufacturer's website you can find all the necessary software: several versions of compilers based on different programming languages, among which you can choose the one you are most familiar with. There are also updated drivers, software for downloading firmware to the memory of the controller and, of course, a huge library of technical documentation, useful information and examples that you can view in the form of a program, watch it in operation and adjust it to your own requirements in order to properly deal with the issue you are interested in. Thus, using data from the debug board, you can eliminate the need to self-assemble complex laboratory bench, solve the problem of recording a program in the memory of the microcontroller and focus directly on studying the principles and features of its work.

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