• Review of STEP
Arduino
Facts
• Microcontroller ATmega328 • Digital I/O Pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output) • Analog Input Pins 6 bootloader • Flash Memory 32 KB (ATmega328) of which 0.5 KB used by • SRAM 2 KB (ATmega328) • EEPROM 1 KB (ATmega328) • Clock Speed 16 MHz
What is a microcontroller?
a) A small microprocessor b) A microprocessor with built in memory and other components in the same chip c) A full computer system on a chip with limited capabilities that can used in embedded applications d) Don’t know what a microprocessor is
What is a microprocessor?
a) A small computer b) The CPU of a digital computer, like the Intel processors in our PC c) The CPU of a device like a mobile phone or tablet d) Don’t know what a digital computer or CPU is.
What is a digital computer?
a) A combination of a CPU, memory units and input and output devices that perform digitial computations specifed by a program on data given by the input devices and transfers the results to the output devices. b) Don’t know what is a program c) Don’t know what is data d) Don’t know what is digital e) All of the above
What is Digital data?
a) Opposite of Analog data or signal b) Discretized and quantized analog signal
c) data that is usually in the form of binary numbers d) all of the above e) Don’t know what is Analog signal
Which of the following is Digital data?
a) Your weight b) Area of this room c) Music on your mp3 player d) SMS message e) Don’t know what is Analog signal
What is an Analog signal?
a) a signal that can take a continuum of values b) signal that can take real number values c) Don’t know what a signal is
What is a signal?
a) any time varying quantity that carries information b) Some change of state to convey information c) The output of a sensor d) All of the above
Audacity
• To understand Audio signals • Free software! you should download at home and play
Audacity: Task 1
• Create a sine