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Steps to develop an Embedded Project

Embedded and Electronics are integral part of each other and engineering students life. Students pursuing Bachelor degree in Engineering, have to make projects in their final year. Some opt for embedded projects based on 8-bit or 16-bit microcontroller. But, don't take embedded projects are easy to make. It requires lot of efforts and deliberate work and proper management of resources.

To make complete and working model of embedded project, there are 2 most important tools which run parallely- Software and Hardware. Every embedded project follow a simple aspect of flow chart in which software and hardware part of one's project run and tested parallely to reach the conclusion.

The first step of embedded project making is the selection of idea which depends on many factors like your expertise, knowledge about the field, colleagues skills, resources. So, decide the project idea according with your group members. After this, second part is the specification which specifies your project and its application clearly.

Third part of flow chart is Block design which is divided into two important tools of the every embedded projects are Software and Hardware.

  • Hardware consists of the selection of the microprocessor, tools required to your project, availability of resources, peripheral ICs required or not and design of the circuits and connection them accordingly to accomplish the systems.
  • Software design often proceeds in parallel to the hardware design. Choose the best software fits to your project after analysis and code can be simulated and debugged accordingly on the software. Code can be written in assembly language or high level language like C.
After this, prototype and assembly of your hardware takes place. This should be carefully and according to the circuit diagram you have collected. It may take more time than your software debugging part running parallely. Now, the integration of hardware and software comes up and done deliberately. Developer can use in-circuit emulators to burn and examine the proper functioning of your written code on your hardware. This part specifies and finds the error in debugging and executing the program on your embedded hardware.

Finishing of the project comes only when the project or product is ready to use without any error and what you decided to make is accomplished. Error is a part of embedded project, can be occurred any time in any form even after the completion of your project. So, one has to keep track of proper working of project time to time and before the final presentation of your project.

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