Lab Equipment

Microcontroller platform, AVR32-system

• EVK1100, Evaluation Kit (Atmel)
  • User Guide
  • Schematics
  • AVR32UC3A0512 microcontroller
    • Preliminary Summary
    • Manual
    • Technical reference manual
    • EVK1100 Wiki (avrfreaks)

• AVR JTAGICE mkII, programmer and debugger (Atmel)

AVR32 IDE: compiler, debugger etc.

• AVR32 Studio (Atmel) [note: we are using version 2.5 in the lab]
  
  • Getting Started with AVR32 Studio
  • AVR ONE! Quick-Start Guide (note: we do not use AVR ONE!, we use JTAGICE instead, but the guide is still relevant)
    

CAN-related equipment

• MCP2515 PICtail Plus Daughter Board, external CAN controller (Microchip)
  • User Guide Board
  • MCP2515 Datasheet (external CAN controller)
  • MCP2551 Datasheet (CAN transciever)
  • Understanding Microchips CAN Module Bit Timing

• Kvaser CAN dongle (Kvaser)
  • CAN King, software framework
• Scania dashboard datasheet

Electronics CAD, simulation and PCB manufacturing

• National Instrument MultiSim, Electronics CAD
• National Instrument UltiBoard, PCB design
  • Tutorial for the Mechatronics Lab, "The Dice"

Electronics measurement and analysis

• National Instument LabView
  • DAQ, Data aquisition units
  • Scope
  • Function generators