MEPhI and Kadetek: Miliuino

2024: Miliuino Complex Introduction

On September 17, 2024, a domestic development was presented - the MILIUINO debugging complex, designed to test and debug software created for Russian-made microcircuits.

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The complex is the result of joint work of employees of the Department of Design of Devices and Installations (No. 18) of the Institute of Physical and Technical Intellectual Systems of MEPhI and the Scientific and Production Association "Kadetek."

The basis of any complex electronics is made up of microcontrollers - microcircuits for software control of electronic devices. In fact, a microcontroller is a computer in a chip, and for it it develops its own, specific software, which, like any computer program, requires debugging. This is why special debugging boards are created that allow you to configure and test the operation of microprocessors - after all, it would be expensive to debug such a program immediately on a car or on a digital machine. Abroad, debug cards are often developed and produced by chipmakers to debug software for devices of this brand. In Russia, in which the intensive transition to domestic electronics and its own software began relatively recently, such boards are practically not produced. It is this problem that the development of MEPhI is designed to solve.

The original design of this product was taken from the Italian debug card Arduino Uno. However, the filling and software of the device are a completely original development, and above all because the complex is focused on domestic microcircuits produced by the Zelenograd enterprise PKK Milander.

Through the debug card, the microcontroller can be connected to the computer, and the programmer can see how the program he created works on the screen.

In addition to the main debugging board, the MILIUINO set includes eight more so-called peripheral expansion boards, which are designed to debug interaction with various peripheral devices, such as a potentiometer, as well as with the electronics of cars and industrial machines that meet Russian national standards.

The set is primarily intended for educational purposes - for students studying at MEPhI under the educational program "Mechatronics and Robotics." However, the kit can also be used by current engineers - primarily for the development of electronics for the automotive industry and machine tools.