Education

Imagine your students arriving eager to finish-up last week’s lab exercise…
The student first goes to his/her project draw and finds their SpectroPRO prototyping board used to construct the lab project circuit.

Next the student plugs the SpectroPRO board into a SpectroBUS development system.

Then the required device modules are added, possibly support for serial communications with a PC is required or maybe a LCD display, regardless of the specific device modules used, they are quickly and easily plugged into the SpectroBUS development board.

Lastly, the PIC MCU is programmed using In-Circuit-Serial-Programming or removed from the SpectroBUS system and then programmed. If the PIC MCU is not a flash part then the SpectroZIF card can be used to facilitate the quick removal and replacement of the PIC prior too and after the programming process.

The aforementioned steps only required a few minutes allowing the student to quickly get back to the same point that they left-off from the previous class.

At the end of the lab session, the device modules are removed from SpectroBUS making them available for the next group of students.

Finally, the student removes the SpectroPRO board with the student built circuit is placed back in their project draw ready for the next class session.