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Tools Required for Starting up Embedded Project

Many engineering students work on embedded projects during and post their summer training. But, working on embedded projects are not easy task. The main problem comes during hardware design and debugging are considered more important task by amateur than coding of the project.

But, Practice and following simple tips can make your project work easy and will require less time. You have to firstly decide your project on embedded field and collect the required related stuffs from your project.
Tools required for starting your project-
1. The first and important thing is the making of list of all stuffs, with their costs, whether in terms of hardware and software. You may encounter with many stuffs that may be difficult to find and this method will help you choosing the correct project according to your financial and availability needs.

2. Discuss about the project with your teacher, coordinator or guide and find out the flaws or errors that can occur during the project. And you will get figured out easily about your project.

3. Compulsory List of tools required in every project.

  1. Hardware- It is the most important thing in your embedded project. You have to required a hardware lab equipped with below specified tools.

(a) Solder iron with stand- To solder components it is required. There are many range of solder iron in Watts(W) available. 15 W solder iron will be enough for b.tech level projects.


(b) Solder Wire- It is melted on the components using solder iron to fix the electronic components.


(c) Flux- It is also important part soldering. It is recommended to slightly dip the soldering part of  components before soldering them.

 (d) Rainbow Wires- Buying rainbow wires are necessary to connect components that are soldered and make the circuit.


(e) Connectors- There are different pin connectors are available in the market. Buy the connector according to your need.


(f) Multimeter- It is a vital instrument to measure different components value, the shorted path in PCB etc. required in your embedded project. It will cost you 250-300 rupees.


(g) Cutter- It is required to cut the nib of wire going to be soldered.


(h) PCB or Breadboard- Buy PCB or Breadboard according to the need of your project. They are used on which hardware design is realized.


(i) Other Components- These are the components that you required at every point of your project. Must buy extra resistors, capacitor, voltage regulator, transistor, LEDs, etc from the required need of your project. Buy the components according to your project.

2. Software- Find out the software required to implement in your project and arrange those software on your working PC or laptop.


(a) Keil µvision IDE software- It is required to write and debug your code for your project. It is compatible with various ranges of micro-controllers.


(b) Circuit Designing- You will require software to design and test your circuit diagram working. I prefer to use proteus over Express PCB software as Proteus allows you to simulate your circuit by loading hex file in the diagram you have made.


(c) SPI Flash Programmer required to burn the hex file in the microcontroller of your hardware. You may also use Flash Magic Programmer to burn hex file.
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