Monday, 10 November 2008

TRIOS overview

TRIOS high level architectural overview on whiteboard:


Three big PCBs will be made each containing: - 10 triacs 8A max - 10 AVRtiny low power control MCUs - optionally master controller with lcd Which gives a total of 30 ouputs fully dimmer controlled. One PCB will have a master unit companied with a little OLED lcd module to parametrize the slave modules. The master and the slaves will be connected by a one wire bus. At this stage it's to early to reveal to much details as we are just beginning to explore what target devices could best do the job. However a first proposition is already chosen: Slave : ATTiny861 Master : ATMEGA2560

The hardware will be done by my friend and can be contacted at manes6969atgmail.com
I will write the software using the AVRstudio 4 with gcc plugin.

The first thing we work on now is a development kit that makes live a bit easier and make things more concrete.

Stay tuned there will be much more in the coming weeks.

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