10.
Conclusions
After
working on the project for quit a while and achieving most of the goals, I am
pleased with the attained success and the challenges overcame in meeting the
project objectives. In this project, I was able to incorporate a GUI developed
by Visual Basic 6 with externally built hardware and make it perform to
specification. The project provided me with a strong background for similar
tasks I might undertake in the field of electronic together with software
development to incorporate more features and controls to such systems in the
future. I was able to place myself in an almost real situation of electronic
product design and implementation and learn the steps involved in such a
process. Specific to my project, I was able to prove that the idea of entering a
number via a keypad, relay it to a PC serial port, validate it on a database and
displaying a message accordingly. The associate timing function scenario in data
transmission and receiving described in report, are quite feasible and are
synchronized with software control.
I learned that various problems that could occur when interfacing the serial communication system with a PC. In my case, timing was a very critical factor. However, the RIVD can handle these time intensive applications and speed up its’ operation if provided with a suitable external hardware.