Requirements and possibilities of a new microcontroller in an embedded system

Shortening product development cycles and reducing cost are important aspects for all development work. Being able to reuse resources spent on earlier product generations is one way to lower costs by preventing the same job from being done multiple times. In this master’s thesis in Computer Science and Engineering an evaluation of a new microcontroller is made with the goal of reusing a large codebase from previous projects. Studied is also the currently used program loading methods at Haldex Traction and a new concept is suggested which would render some of the current limitations invalid. Finally a presentation of the practical work needed to adapt a small real-time kernel called TinyTimber to a new platform is explained.Validerat; 20101217 (root