| ??? 02/16/13 08:02 Read: times |
#189377 - Also buy a multimeter and soldering equipment Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Abhishek R. Kaushik said:
I have already decided to start with MCS51, now the challenge was to choose a good development kit. Erik's recommendations on dev-boards are great, but hard to find in Mumbai. I mean, it costs around Rs.8k to 11k on import, so its making me confused. I just checked UNI-51-SDK, its available in Mumbai at Rs.3900, too good for me. I think its a good place to start in a shortest time. Thanks for answering. Do you have any suggesstions on study materials? Thanks Abhishek Also keep some money aside to buy a respectable multimeter and soldering equipment. Try not to take a coding only approach to embedded systems. On Lamington Road, you may also get a copy (probably illegal photocopy) of the MCS51 manual from Intel. Many books draw examples and info from this. And Mazidi does have a couple of errors, and does not explain I/O port structure as well as the MCS 51 book. If you prefer to be coding only approach to embedded system, then try the ARM series. There are cortex boards in the same price range and the free Keil tool chain for ARM has 32k limit and a RTOS. It has excellent peripheral (UART, SPI etc)simulation, so it makes it easier to dive into the inner workings of a microcontroller chip. The Cortex series devices also have some excellent debugging features, which will also let you dive into the working of the chip. |
