Microcontroller Application Report

UMBC

CMSC 391 -- Programming Microcontrollers

Microcontroller Application Report

You are required to write a report on a microcontroller application. This report will be a website version. You will select the application that you wish to report on and get the instructor's permission to do the report on that top. I will only allow one student to report on a specific application. Additionally you will present the report verbally to the class (approximately a ten minute report.) When you are selecting the application, I do not want it to be broad and vague, like "Automotive Engineering", but rather "Collision Avoidance in Automobiles". There are many ways that microcontrollers are used in automobiles and someone else can then do a report on how microcontrollers control the air and fuel mixtures in carburetors.

Topics To Be Included

Because the different applications are so different, there can be no list of specifics topics to be covered, but this is a typical report, just like you did in your English classes. Your report should be informative for your classmates and teach me some things that I don't know about how microcontrollers are used!

Page requirements

Web pages will be in a directory that is named for the chip (i.e., 8051) and the first page in the directory will be named index.html. You can have as many web page's as you wish. Web page's should be neat and attractive. If you desire, you can get a graphic image(.gif or .jpg) for the page.

You will turn in a tar file containing the directory and all the files contained in it. This directory will be added to the course homepage for public display.