Elevator Controller Firmware

Authors: Antoine Karam and Ghady Youssef

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Firmware Design course

This project designs a 4-floor elevator controller written in C.

Assignment requirements

Floor information

On each floor there are:

• One 7-segment-digit display for floor number indication.
• One UP button (except on F3).
• One DOWN button (except on GF).
• UP/DOWN LED arrow indication.
• Three limit switches for cabin feedback:
  • One indicates the STOP position.
  • One indicates SPEED CHANGE when going UP (except of F3).
  • One indicates SPEED CHANGE when going DOWN (except on GF).

Cabin information

Cabin interior:

• Four buttons each for a floor.
• One 7-segment-digit display for floor number indication.
• Four 7-segment-digit display intended to show time (HH:MM), date (DD MM) and temperature (TT dC) in sequence, 10 seconds apart.
  • Two options for the calendar implementation aka Real-Time Clock (RTC):
    • Either you implement it by software, or
    • Use an I2C-based external RTC (datasheet included).
      • A bonus will be added when using external RTC.
• The temperature is delivered by the famous LM35 analog sensor.
• Two-level speed control.
• Dual direction control.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following components:

1. Proteus to run the simulation.
2. CCS C Compiler to build the firmware.
3. VS Code if you want to make any changes to the code (optional but recommended over the CCS C Compiler editor).
4. Install clang-format and cppcheck to ensure the CI pipeline passes.

Project Structure

The firmware/src directory contains the source code which will run on the microcontroller. It contains the scheduler in sched, drivers for the LM35 and DS1307, and the api which contains exposed functions to manipulate floor sensors, control the motor, and manage the scheduler.

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