Developing experimental platforms using common software tools for enhancing technical skills of electronics engineering students in microcontrollers

An innovative laboratory methodology for simulation of microcontroller based virtual kits is presented. Microcontrollers are widely applied in the field of industry to solve engineering control problems. Today´s embedded world uses variety of microcontrollers as heart of processing. These simulation softwares are used to study the functionality of circuit. Students have blindness when they first contact the experiments because of the complexity of the circuit, so this usually leads to the damage to the experiment device. Therefore, it is necessary to make the students to know the theory, models and adjustable parameters of the experiments before the practical experiments. The mixed software stimulation platform based on Proteus, LabVIEW, MATLAB and Arduino was designed for this purpose.