Overview
Modern microcontrollers host a great variety of peripherals. These peripherals provide the means to integrate the microcontroller (MCU) in a plethora of applications ranging from industrial communication equipment to vehicle monitoring and intelligent control. These peripherals reside inside the MCU and each one is implemented in a separate application-specific core. Their capability categories are generally met across all microcontroller manufacturers and can relate to: performance (million instructions per second, flash/RAM/ROM capacities, operating frequency), communication (serial transceivers, serial interfaces, ethernet support, USB), system integration (timers, general purpose pins, pulse width modulation, quadrature encoders) and analogue support (Analogue to Digital Converter – ADC, comparators). These peripherals communicate with the main processing unit over a set of high-performance data and control buses. Most of the projects that the host organisation undertakes involve the efficient utilisation of these peripherals to design and implement solutions under some very strenuous size, weight, power and cost (SWAPC) constraints.
Objectives
At a higher level, the eDACmicro project aims to advance the state of the art in the design of certain solutions that the host organisation provides. The concept for this project has been amalgamated after the long-term occupation in the area of design and implementation of electronic hardware and firmware. The project promotes the development of a novel and inventive idea for optimising the hardware resources of modern microcontrollers. The purpose is the expansion of their capabilities in the scenarios to be analysed during the project. A successful outcome is expected to loosen the strenuous design constraints mentioned above, without compromising the quality of the final product.
In this context the eDACmicro project aligns perfectly with the horizontal priority sector of Information and Communication Technologies for Hardware in the Smart Specialisation Strategies for Cyprus (S3Cy).
Dissemination
Semacq Systems – Sign up! The eDACmicro project video presentation!
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Semacq Systems – eDACmicro project Kick-off!
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Funding
The research project with protocol number CONCEPT/0618/0086 is funded under the Restart 2016-2020 programme for Research, Technological Development and Innovation of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation.
