Using M32_Card for Data Acquisition with on-board 8 channnel ADC

Hi friends,
I'm showing here one more application of the home-made M32_Card discussed in my earlier post. The microcontroller of the card is having 8-channel, 10 bit resolution ADC which can be used for analog data acquisition. Using the hyper terminal for the selection of menu, ADC can be selected to display value of the analog voltage applied to each channel (at the 9-pin header pin; 8 ADC channels & 1 GND).
The microcontroller reads the voltage at each channel and sends the data to PC via RS232 cable. At reciving end (PC), the incoming data can be converted into excel format to store the values at regular time intervals.
As shown in the screen-shot of the hyper terminal, I had connected here the 5v Vcc to Channel 0 and an Li cell to channel 7.
The M32 can also send a time impression along with the channel data using the on-board RTC DS1307 to record the voltage variation with time.

The project source code files can be downloaded from here:
Download Source Code

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Make-Yourself ATmega32 Starter's Kit with LCD, I2C, SPI, RTC, ADC interfaces

Hi friends,
here is my home-made kit of ATmega32 microcontroller interfacing. The ATmega32 controller is rich with features like onboard 32kB in-System programmable flash, 1 KB EEPROM, 2KB SRAM, 10bit ADC (8 channel), SPI bus inteface, TWI (compatible with I2C bus) interface, an USART, analog comparator, etc. That's why I've selected it to load my kit with all those features.

This M32 card is having an LCD inteface with contrast adjustment, an RS232 port for connecting with PC, a connector for 8 analog voltage inputs to measure by ADC, a Real Time Clock IC DS1307 from maxim with battery back-up, four general purpose keys, two keys for generating interrupts and an LED.
The circuit can be powered by an easily available 12v DC adapter. The voltage regulator IC 7805 used to convert the input into regulated 5v supply.

See below the kit in powered on condition and the schematic (click to enlarge the images)













The PCB is completely home-made, using the etching technique with the Ferric Chloride chemical. If you want to know how to make a PCB yourself from your layout, visit following webpage, it's really helpful:

http://electrons.psychogenic.com/modules/arms/art/10/pcb_howto.php

The schematic and layout of the M32_card shown here are prepared using EAGLE. It's a single layer board for making the home-preparation easy. Check out the bottom layer and the layouts in the pics below:












The software for the ATmega32 controller is written using imageCraft AVR compiler. The software contains code for LCD interface, use of RTC and communication with PC with RS232 port. Using the Hyper terminal in windows, the functionality of the kit can be checked, as I've mentioned in my previous post of RTC_EEPROM interface with ATmega128.
Sown below are the pics of RTC circuit in test and related screen shot of the hyper terminal while interacting with the M32_Card

















Here is Proteus ISIS Simulation:



The complete source code files including new addition of ADC (check out Here) can be downloaded below.


Download
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Source code
PCB files (in PDF & EAGLE formats)Proteus Simulation Model

Datasheets:

ATmega32 DS1307 MAX232

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