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| ====== 296 Team Meeting - February 5, 2016 ====== | ====== 296 Team Meeting - February 5, 2016 ====== | ||
| - | ** Attended: ** | ||
| - | * Kyaw | ||
| - | * Kenny | ||
| - | * Jaimie | ||
| - | ====== 296 Team Meeting - February 3, 2016 ====== | ||
| ** Attended: ** | ** Attended: ** | ||
| * Kyaw | * Kyaw | ||
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| ==== Discussions ==== | ==== Discussions ==== | ||
| - | 1. What is an embedded system? | + | ==Embedded Systems== |
| + | - Ordered List ItemWhat is an embedded system? | ||
| * Computer system that mixes electrical and mechanical hardware | * Computer system that mixes electrical and mechanical hardware | ||
| - | 2. What is a microcontroller? | + | - What is a microcontroller? |
| * Intergrated circuit (IC: Processor core, memory, programmable input/output, memory) | * Intergrated circuit (IC: Processor core, memory, programmable input/output, memory) | ||
| * "Intelligence" of a system | * "Intelligence" of a system | ||
| - | 3. SPI, ADC, UART, I2C | + | - SPI, ADC, UART, I2C |
| - | a. What do they stand for? | + | - What do they stand for? |
| * SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface Bus | * SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface Bus | ||
| * ADC: Analog to Digital Converter | * ADC: Analog to Digital Converter | ||
| * UART: Univerasal Asynchronous receiver/transmitter | * UART: Univerasal Asynchronous receiver/transmitter | ||
| * I2C: Inter Integrated Circuits | * I2C: Inter Integrated Circuits | ||
| - | b. What are they? | + | - What are they? |
| - | c. How are they all related? | + | * SPI: Four wire seial bus4 |
| - | e. | + | * ADC: Converts voltage to digital number to represent amplitude |
| + | * UART: Used for communications over a computer or peripheral device | ||
| + | * I2C: Serial computer bus communication system that transfers data between computer or computer component, multi-master and multi-slave, single-ended | ||
| + | - What are they useful for? | ||
| + | * SPI: Good for short distance communication in embedded system | ||
| + | * ADC: Digital signals propagate better than analog signals (easy to detect noise) | ||
| + | * UART: Computer hardware that translates between parallel and serial data | ||
| + | * I2C: Bi-directional 2-wire bus | ||
| + | -How are they all related? | ||
| + | * All needed for a circuit to work efficiently and communicate with the circuit | ||
| + | - How do you think this information will relate to this lab? | ||
| + | * We will be working with a lot of this device or with its concepts | ||
| + | ==Arduino== | ||
| + | - What is Arduino? | ||
| + | * Open-source prototype platform with software and hardware | ||
| + | - What is an Arduino Uno? | ||
| + | * A microcontroller (ATmega328) | ||
| + | - What kind of programming language does the Arduino IDE support? | ||
| + | * Uses C and C++ | ||
| + | - What are the two functions that are present in an Arduino program? | ||
| + | * Main and loop | ||
| + | - How is it different from a regular microcontroller | ||
| + | * It is part of PCB and it's easy to code without HDL | ||
| + | - Why do people use the Arduino | ||
| + | - What are some advantages? | ||
| + | * Overall it is easy to use and access | ||
| + | * Open Sourced | ||
| + | - What are some disadvantages? | ||
| + | * Needs power supply unlike traditional microcontroller | ||