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A Scalable Hardware Environment for Embedded Systems Education

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This chapter presents a scalable platform designed from scratch to support teaching laboratories of embedded systems. Platform’s complexity can increase to offer more functionalities in conjunction with student’s educational evolution. An I2C bus guarantees the continuity of functionalities among modules. The functionalities are supported by a communication protocol presented in this chapter.

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  1. Electromechanical Engineering Department, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Tiago Gonçalves, A. Espírito-Santo, B. J. F. Ribeiro & P. D. Gaspar

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Correspondence to Tiago Gonçalves .

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  1. The University of Hong Kong, Hung To Road, Hong Kong, 3739, China, People's Republic

    Sio-Iong Ao

  2. School of Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, Montserrat

    Len Gelman

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Gonçalves, T., Espírito-Santo, A., Ribeiro, B.J.F., Gaspar, P.D. (2011). A Scalable Hardware Environment for Embedded Systems Education. In: Ao, SI., Gelman, L. (eds) Electrical Engineering and Applied Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1192-1_20

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