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Project Abstract

Knorr Bremse- Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge is the market leader in the field of Bremse Systems or Brake Systems for Railway Vehicles. They have a range of Brake Control solutions which can be seen at their products website on http://www.knorr-bremse.com .

As a part of my M.Sc in Information Technology and Automation at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Germany, I am required to complete a 6 months Master's Thesis or Diplomarbeit in German company. I started working on my thesis on 1st August 2004 and am planning to finish most of the design, Development and Testing work by the end of Dec 2004.(refer to my schedule). 

I am working on Design, Development and Testing of a device driver for Queued Analog to Digital Converted (QADC) on a MPC 565 microcontroller from Freescale (the semiconductor division of Motorola). For a detailed summary updated on

What's  New

• The interrupt handler is working without nester interrupts Nov 22
• The QADC conversion is working - Oct 3

Key Milestones

• Dec 1 - Have the coding completed according to Requirement Specification.
• June 7 - Have CAD drawings completed
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