Hi ! I am a pre-final year student of Electronics & Comm. engg. I am thinking of doing a project in embedded sys. in my final year. Could anyone please give me some nice ideas for an innovative project?? Are there any links where i could get more info? What are the new developements in this field?
I'll be really grateful for any guidance & ideas. Thanks; Neha.
A good idea would be to get a microcontroller development kit and port an openly available embedded, real time OS to it. This would give a fair amount of understanding about the hardware architecture, periheral interfacing and ofcourse the thrill of writing firmware.
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Connect a thermistor to one of the ADCs and code a thermometer. Then connect a relay with a GPIO line and code a thermostat. Write a serial interface and it's a programmable thermostat. There are enough real world problems to solve in there to keep you busy for a while yet it's not so tough that you'll never get there.
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If this is an undergraduate project, then assess and calibrate the amount of effort you put into it. U/G's are not expected to make a commercial product with an actual market waiting for it.
I suggest you pick something that interests you - football, vintage computers, nudist beaches, it really doesn't matter - and imagine a relatively simple appliance that could be used in conjunction with your topic of interest. Make an autopilot for your model airplane, or a GPS position tracker for your dog.
Please God do not make yet another student MP3 player. At an estimate, there is now one slightly unique MP3 player design for every person in the world less than 40 years old.
Hello Neha, I am making now my final-year project. It's basically a 3phase energ meter with ethernet interface. It's not very innovative but it' electronics + communication...
Hello Neha! My project is basically from two parts, that i call the "Analog part" an the "Digital part" In the "analog part" the signal from the 3 phase line is converted in suc a way that it can be measured by the "digital part". There are a lot o specialized chips for energy meters but i am using ADuC7026 uC, i want t implement all the algorithms and signal processing with it, and for th ethernet interface i am using CS8900A ethernet controller.
This can be done with FPGA, but i think that ethernet controller with FPG is a LOT of work :). Drop me an e-mail snipped-for-privacy@abv.bg if you want mor details.
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