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Hands-on practice laboratory experience is an essential component for effective engineering education. Thanks to the recent technological advancement, remote and virtual laboratories are becoming more and more popular.
The study presented in the current paper is focused on developing a student board that can be used by both teachers and students in the education process. For this board, several PSoC™ 6 applications have been developed, to provide students hands-on experience with various electronic basic concepts, which they can later practice by developing their own applications. Although many applications can be demonstrated using this board, in this paper the design and development of two practical applications is presented - LabVIEW Control of RGB Led Intensity and Signal Generation and Acquisition with LabVIEW Display. Those two applications are both using the PSoC 6 microcontroller and were prototyped on the NI ELVIS II device.
The developed board has the main advantage of being an inexpensive mixed signal platform to teach important concepts in electronics embedded system laboratories, and it will suit well the educational needs of the post-COVID era.
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We would like to express our great appreciation to NI Romania for availing of free MyRIO devices and LabVIEW license. Our gratitude also goes to Infineon-Cypress for providing us with a free PSoC™ 6 BLE Prototyping Board (CY8CPROTO-063-BLE), thus facilitating this study and making it possible. Their generosity and collaboration are greatly appreciated.
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Chamunorwa, T., Modran, H.A., Ursuțiu, D., Samoilă, C. (2023). Embedded Student Board for Digitalization of Engineering Education. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_100
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