Abstract: The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board

(CEAB) requires Engineering Schools to update their laboratories on a regular basis. Selecting an appropriate hardware and software development environment for the lab is a difficult task because it triggers a redevelopment of the laboratory experiments, a process that requires solutions to complex technical and pedagogical intertwined problems. This paper presents an overview of the selection process of a specific microcontroller development board and a software development environment for a laboratory in an undergraduate course on interfacing of microcontrollers, microprocessors and microcomputers for real-time systems