Development of a self-tutoring multimedia contents for microcontroller instruction set

In this paper, we have developed a new educational system that more easier understanding basic concept than current contents, for biomedical engineering who study microcontrollers or microprocessors that is found in modern medical equipment. The developed tutoring system utilized multimedia contents and reduced a great disparity of education quality. It also provides movie clips, graphic animation, narrations, which contains graphic and text document. Movie clips were produced by using Win Cam (Mirion Systems), and graphic animation were implemented by using FLASH MX software (Macromedia Inc.) and Action Script, GIF graphic files and Power Point Techniques. This tutoring system includes the basic concept of microcontroller-based system, entire execution process for the each instruction of the instruction set, development of small-sized programs, understanding of operations, control of built-in peripherals and design techniques of simple application programs.