Question

Task 1 (P1.1)

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Scenario:

You are a development engineer at a toy company that manufactures remote control cars using microcontrollers. Your R&D team is currently working on designing a new line of remote control cars, which requires your knowledge to make certain design decisions.

The new design has the following requirements:

-              Driving a motor for the wheels

-              Buttons on the remote control to accelerate, brake and reverse

-              LEDs to indicate forward and reverse

You are required to determine the appropriate microcontroller for this project (Task 1)

For this task, you are required to perform the following:

Compare one member of each of the PIC12, PIC16, PIC18, PIC24 and dsPIC families (datasheets are available at http://www.microchip.com/doclisting/TechDoc.aspx?type=datasheet) and determine which is the most economical option to meet the project requirements. You must give an indication of the following metrics: clock speed, internal architecture, on-board memory, IO ports, instruction size, interrupt capabilities, additional features, cost and physical size.

(D1)

Provide proper engineering justification. You must develop proper system requirements and show how your microcontroller and external hardware selection would meet the design requirements. Select the microcontroller which would be ideal for this project, show how you developed the system requirements and what they are, and justify your microcontroller selection.

Answer 1