Topview Trainer - FAQ.
1. What makes this Topview Trainer different from other trainers?
Most of the trainers give importance to the standalone operations. They
supports all typical facilities meant for standalone mode.
Few trainers support host communication facility. But these trainers
stop with just downloading an assembled program from the host Computer into the trainer.
Whatever feature they give for this host communication is really a very
crude one and you just can’t do anything other than blind downloading of the program
code into the trainer. You may have to complete this simple job in many steps.
Topview Trainer basically supports all standard facilities of a typical
trainer and also sports a full featured and powerful debugging capability. You can enter,
edit, assemble, download and debug your target code in a sophisticated GUI environment.
Now you can appreciate the utility of the Topview Trainer whether it is
connected to the host computer or even when it is used in the standalone configuration.
Also remember the trainer comes with a low priced tag without
compromising the features.
2. How this trainer is useful for the beginners?
The trainer is designed keeping the beginners’ needs into
consideration. Just a simple glimpse on the hardware, or the user guide or the
presentation on the Topview Debugger may indicate the amount of efforts that has gone into
product development.
Switches, LEDs, help the user to experiment more in the trainer.
The user guide gives you plenty of fully tested examples ranging from
simple to complicated operations. All these examples come with a detailed flow chart with
right comments. Beginners can confidently use these code snippets in their next embedded
applications without hesitation.
3. Can I use this trainer in any real time project?
Great. We are waiting for this question. You can confidently use this
trainer as a general purpose project board. The required facility is part of the deal.
You can use this trainer to learn about 8031 microcontrollers,
Atmel’s 89CXX microcontrollers and then straight away use this trainer in your real
life applications.
Once your target code is ready, fuse an EPROM with that target program
and put that in its designated socket and reset the trainer. Now it has became your target
hardware meant for real life projects. You can still use the Topview Debugger when using
this external EPROM.
4.What is this Topview Debugger you are talking about?
Topview Debugger is the most useful feature of the trainer
package designed to make your life easy and comfortable during project development. It
also simplifies your learning activities and gives you more analyzing power to handle
tough programming tasks.
This debugger is the exclusive version of our popular Topview Debugger software meant for
the trainer. It comes free of cost along with the trainer.
Topview Debugger is described in full in a separate part of this document.
5. Will Topview Debugger really deliver what you promise in the specification?
Basically Topview Debugger is made available with the
trainer for these few obvious reasons:
1. Learners should get fast learning facilities.
2. Experienced users should finish their projects faster than anticipated time.
The clearview window structure of the debugger presents all the relevant information about
the microcontroller’s internal architecture in a most productive manner. A single
screen gives total picture of the device’s operations to enable you to go faster
during development phase.
Many debugging features are available at few keystrokes. You need not leave the debugging
environment at any time for any reason.
You can compose, edit and assemble your program code in the same development environment.
You can make use of many shortcuts available in the debugger for faster program
development. So, it is clear that Topview Debugger shall save significant amount of
project time when you develop real time solutions. Many of our customers reported a
minimum saving of about 30% of their project time when using Topview Debugger.
We suggest you to use the trainer in this debugging environment for 2/3 hours. Then you
never start any developmental work without our Topview Debugger.
6. How useful is Topview Trainer’s user guide?
Topview Trainer’s User Guide is another useful part
that gives more practical knowledge apart from mentioning relevant information.
For beginners sake, all the examples are provided with clear Flow chart and Block
diagrams.
There is a separate chapter tells you about various field proven expansion possibilities
when you put this trainer into real life project.
Following details are available:
1. Interfacing Real Time Clock.
2. Incorporating LCD Modules.
3. Facility to have parallel printing capability.
4. Multichannel ADC with 12 bit resolution.
5. 8 Bit Digital to Analog Converter.
6. Stepper Motor Controls.
7. 32 I/O Lines.
Complete circuit diagram has been provided to give you a quick start when you get ready to
meet the demands of a real life project.
So now you can understand how this user guide plays a vital role in your learning as well
as project implementation phase.
For your convenience, the complete user guide is made available in our website. Download
the same and verify its utility all by yourself.
7. How can I get more information about Topview Trainer?
Following information is made available in the Documentation
Section of this page to enable you to get the complete picture:
1. Topview Trainer Hardware User Guide.
2. Topview Debugger Software User Guide.
3. Software Examples Manual.
Spare enough time to go through all this information before
you come to a decision.
8. What are all the Payment options?
For Indian Customers:
Calculate and add the tax amount and packing and forwarding charges to the basic cost and
send the Demand Draft in favor of “ Frontline Electronics Pvt. Ltd. ” payable in
Salem.
We can also send the Trainer through a reliable courier service on COD basis.
For Institutions and Government Departments:
Send your enquiry to enable us to proceed further.
For International Customers:
Contact us for exact terms.
9. Is there any catch in Money back Guarantee?
Well. We don’t expect to get any returns from you. If
you face any difficulty in using the trainer, make sure you have read the UserGuide manual
completely. Otherwise send an e-mail to us indicating exact nature of the problem to
enable us to do the needful to sort out the issue.
We advice you to use this trainer few times to get the complete picture on the utility
value.
If you still insist on returning the trainer, kindly indicate the reason behind your
decision and we always respect your decision.
We don’t accept any returns after 15 days of invoice for any reason. Before sending
the trainer back to us, inform us in advance about the same. Send back the trainer in
original packing and etc. you need to bear the cost of returning. The basic cost of the
trainer will be returned to you on receipt of the materials in 1/2 weeks time.
Money back Guarantee is available only for Indian Customers.
International customers, kindly excuse us. The facility is not available to you for
obvious reasons.
10. What are all the contents of the complimentary CDROM?
- Topview Debugger Software meant for the trainer.
- Cross Assembler for 8031 microcontrollers from Atmel.
- All Documentation meant for Atmel’s 8031 microcontrollers.
- Evaluation copies of our other software tools.
- Electronic Book on the following topics authored by our Technical Director:
“ Embedded System Design “
11. Is there is any discount if I order more than one trainer?
Sorry. We don’t allow any discount on the basic cost
which is already kept at very attractive level.
As per our knowledge, you can’t find a similar trainer for this price at anywhere.
12. What about upgradation of software?
The software is periodically upgraded to include new
devices/new features. Kindly keep visiting our website as often as possible.
Most of the time, the upgrade will be given free of cost.
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