Disk for studying microcontrollers

With the development of microprocessor technology there appeared the requirement for studying new kinds of microprocessors and microcontrollers with their application to solve practical tasks. The main function of modern microcontrollers is the operation in electronic systems. Availability of electrically reprogrammable program and data memory, a large number of registers and in-circuit resources provide really fantastic opportunities to solve many tasks of automation, including creating cheap measurement systems and controlling electrical circuits. In order to study modern microcontrollers the chair Industrial and Medical Electronics (IME) of TPU has bought several units of the STK500 starter kit. This kit was 52 designed for engineers who are willing to start designing program code and testing it. The STK500 has the following characteristics: compatibility with AVR Studio program; programmer for programming microcontrollers; support of parallel and serial high-voltage programming of all AVR- microcontrollers; connection to PC through RS- 232 Interface for programming and control; 8-output, 20-output, 28-output, 40-output sockets for fixing DIP-package of AVR-microcontrollers; serial In-System programming (ISP) of all AVR- devices; 8 push buttons for general use, 8LEDs for general use, additional RS-232 Port; expansion connector for accessing external modules; embedded DataFlash with capacitance 2 Mb for nonvolatile data storage.