8th July 2008 - Newbury

9th July 2008 - Newcastle Under Lyme

The objectives of the Microcontroller Design Made Easy Seminar are to provide users with information on best practices to consider when designing with an 8 and 16 bit microcontroller.
The topics covered in this seminar include:
A) How to lay out critical parts of the PCB design for best performance.
B) How to make your MCU design optimised for high reliability systems.
C) Techniques to utilise modern Peripherals to simplify designs and increase CPU throughput.
D) When to Emulate and when to Debug to speed up your design.

(1) How to design for high reliability MCU systems
• How to achieve Power-On testing and runtime testing for MCU component blocks such as CPU , ROM and RAM.
• Peripheral self testing techniques such as ADC self calibration techniques
• Best Practice for Hardware design
o Basic PCB design techniques for reliable systems
o Recommended schematic layouts for Crystal circuits and reset circuits

(2) Peripheral usage and peripheral design
• Utilising peripherals to increase CPU performance
• Interlinking timers
• ADC, POR and LVD

(3) Session on Ease of Design with Renesas Tools:
• Consider advantages of On Chip Debug versus Full emulation.
• Advantages of unified software interface – One tool fits all

The Seminar starts at 10.00, with coffee and pre-registration from 09.30, finishing at 16.00 (Lunch from 12:30 until 13:30 )

Click here to register for your place!