April | 2010 | IEEE @ Amrita

PIC Ex’el ’10 : a success saga

Posted by amritaieee in Uncategorized on April 1, 2010

IEEE SB of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kollam conducted a 2 day national level microcontroller workshop on PIC 16F877A on March 27-28 2010. There was a great response from the students as 60 participants turned up from all over India which included 2 faculties from NIT Calicut anda faculty-student pair from Military College Of Electronics And Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad. Each of the participants was provided with an ‘Amrita PIC microcontroller Kit’ which consisted of PIC base, PIC burner unit, PIC 16F877A, breadboard and other essential components needed for both workshop and future development of projects. The classes were taken by Mr. Rajesh Kannan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of ECE, who is also the SB counselor. The classes were between 9 am to 5 pm on both days. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr.Sankaran, Principal, Amrita School of Engineering.

Dr.Sankaran, Principal, ASE

Prof. Sriram Ananthanarayanan, HOD, Dept. of ECE also spoke on the occasion. The seminar was held at the E-learning center and the Lab sessions were held in the VLSI Lab & Digital Lab. Day 1 morning session consisted of 3 seminars – Introduction to Microcontrollers and PIC microcontroller, Introduction to PIC I/O ports & Introduction to PIC assembly programming.

Rajesh sir engaging a theory class

afternoons were dedicated for hardware sessions

The afternoon session were dedicated for practical sessions. The students were given introduction to MPLAB software for programming PIC and they could also try out the hardware part of it. Day 2’s morning session also consisted of 3 seminars – PIC Interrupts, PIC Analog to Digital Converter & PIC Pulse Width Modulator. There was a photograph session after this. The afternoon session consisted of hardware experiments

and also a mini-project. Most of the participants completed all the experiments. All were enthusiastic to learn the various aspects of PIC. Amrita IEEE SB members served as teaching assistants during the lab. All the participants were given certificate of participation. Feedback forms were distributed among the participants in which they were asked to rate the workshop out of 10. The average score given by the participants was 9, which is a remarkable success to our IEEE SB.