Treffer: Simple software simulator for teaching embedded programming

Title:
Simple software simulator for teaching embedded programming
Source:
International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy
Publisher Information:
Int Assoc Online Engineering
Publication Year:
2022
Collection:
Tomas Bata University Zlin: TBU publications / Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift article in journal/newspaper
Language:
English
Rights:
Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; openAccess
Accession Number:
edsbas.688277E7
Database:
BASE

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This article presents simple software simulator of a microcontroller evaluation board FRDM-KL25Z. The simulator was developed to make it possible to teach our embedded systems course online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is in principle a software library that handles function calls and register access from student's program and displays the outputs in a console window of a stan-dard desktop application. It does not require any special hardware or software tools except an IDE capable of building C++ applications for the desktop com-puter. It can be easily modified for different microcontrollers and thus can be useful if existing lessons need to be switched from in-person to distance learning at a short notice.