'C' Programming of Digital Control Applications on PIC24 and dsPIC Microcontrollers

Overview
The 'C' programming skills needed to implement Digital Control algorithms on the dsPIC include understanding issues such as how to convert a model of the system being controlled into suitable data structures and associated algorithms.

Key Skills
After attending this course, you will be able to:

• Design suitable data structures and functions for implementing digital control systems
• Implement control algorithms in C
• Interface control algorithms to system input and output hardware
• Understand multi-tasking issues involved in complex control applications where the activities of multiple devices need to be co-ordinated
• Apply state transition techniques to control applications

Course Contents
Intensive overview of arrays, pointers, and dynamic data structures I/O buffering - circular, polygonal, iove and shadow buffering Structured 'C' programming approaches to dsPIC

• timers,
• A/D and D/A peripherals
• PWM
• RS232 I2C

Standalone multi-tasking implementation strategies Analysis and modeling of control systems and the construction of task and state diagrams State transition diagrams and their realisation in 'C' Statecharts and their realisation in 'C'

• hierarchical state transition systems
• concurrent state transition systems

Critical section and mutual exclusion issues Inter-task communication issues Basics of multi-processor distributed control

• master-slave
• peer-to-peer