Hello,
I am learning about a reference design circuit which contains an STM8S103F2 (http://www.st.com/web/catalog/mmc/FM141/SC1244/SS1010/LN754/PF215114) to control the switching of two SCR's within a lighting dimmer circuit.
My day job is a design engineer for LV & HV distribution systems, I have basic electronics experience and I have even less embedded engineering/ software coding experience.
I have the software files and I am keen to better understand the software configuration of this MCU as ultimately I wish to make a few tweaks for my application.
My question is therefore, where do I start? what kit do I need? if I tweaked the software, how to I download it onto the MCU? where could I find an engineer to help (if needed)?
Appreciate this is a bit of an open ended post but essentially I'm looking for some tips to get me started in the right direction so I don't waste too much of my time unnecessarily.
Many thanks,
Neil
I am learning about a reference design circuit which contains an STM8S103F2 (http://www.st.com/web/catalog/mmc/FM141/SC1244/SS1010/LN754/PF215114) to control the switching of two SCR's within a lighting dimmer circuit.
My day job is a design engineer for LV & HV distribution systems, I have basic electronics experience and I have even less embedded engineering/ software coding experience.
I have the software files and I am keen to better understand the software configuration of this MCU as ultimately I wish to make a few tweaks for my application.
My question is therefore, where do I start? what kit do I need? if I tweaked the software, how to I download it onto the MCU? where could I find an engineer to help (if needed)?
Appreciate this is a bit of an open ended post but essentially I'm looking for some tips to get me started in the right direction so I don't waste too much of my time unnecessarily.
Many thanks,
Neil