Welcome to Embedded-Knowhow ,
a site which provides resource information on microcontrollers
and embedded systems for students, lecturers, and practitioners, and back-up
information for my books.
The Derbot Project
Buying the parts, build guidance, ideas for customising, getting it
going, what others have done.
See the "Derbot Challenge 2008"
picture gallery and video on this page.
Support
site:
Designing Embedded Systems with
PIC Microcontrollers, Principles & Applications
This book has a strong focus on PIC microcontrollers, a project orientation, and uses both Assembler and C programming.
It is
intended for students, practicing engineers, and the confident hobbyist,
particularly those who want to learn by building
and commissioning their own
projects.
Support site:
An
Introduction to the Design of Small-Scale Embedded Systems.
This book has a more theoretical approach. Its
chapters go deep into a range of important topics, e.g. memory
technologies,
data conversion, numerical routines, low power supply, and design
methodologies. It is useful for students and practicing engineers
who want to gain a deeper understanding of the main issues impacting embedded
systems.
Resources
Links to suppliers, manufacturers, universities, jobs.
Development Tools FAQs
Working with MPLAB, PicStart, PICkit 2, ICD2, the C18 Compiler, and
the Pumpkin Salvo RTOS.
Forecasts predict that there will be more than 16 billion embedded devices by 2010 (almost three embedded devices per person on earth), and over 40 billion devices worldwide by 2020.
Today, 98% of all computing devices or processors are used in embedded computing systems.
Embedded systems (electronics and software) add substantial value to products.
Within the next five years, the share of embedded systems in the final product value is expected to increase substantially in markets such as automotive (36%), industrial automation (22%), telecommunications (37%), consumer electronics (41%) and health/medical equipment (33%).
The value added to the final product by embedded
software is much higher than the cost of the embedded device itself.
From a publication by
Artemis
The site is maintained by Tim Wilmshurst, who teaches embedded systems at the University of Derby. Comments gratefully received. Please mail me at t.j.wilmshurst@derby.ac.uk.
Revised: February 22, 2009.
