PHASE 1: PREPARATIONS
Inspection of initial design and calculations.
Work load estimation of this phase: 20h.
- Students must have made calculations about needed amplifications etc. for their planned implementation.
- The web pages give some workload estimates of each task set for each meeting. Based on these
estimates and students own reasoning, the students must make their own timetable, and preliminarily
book the rest of the meetings with their assistants. The meeting times are preliminary i.e. they
can be revised later, but the purpose is to give the students the idea of how to spend time with this
course. The students must notify certain things regarding the deadline:
- The assistants may be on holiday at some points of the course, i.e. there
may be restrictions for meeting times.
- There are 25 other groups per assistant attending this course, i.e.
this limits the available times for meetings, and the availability of programming
and debugging points in TS139. Note that especially in May, when the deadline is
approaching, TS139 tends to be very crowded.
- The equipment may get broken occasionally due to too rough handling. The assistants
repair things to their best ability, but they cannot be checking the equipment after
every single group. Thus, we hope that you handle things very carefully, and repair what
you break. Repair guide is available on the course web pages.
- The ordering of components takes about a week.
- The milling of the PCB takes about a week, depending on the milling queue.
- The students must present block diagram of the hardware (slightly more detailed from the given one), and another block diagram of the software functionality (very high level is sufficient). They also must present, which peripheral of the MCU will used for each functionality.
- Essential design issue is electrical protection of the system (diodes,etc.)
