Microcontroller Based Display Systems for Basketball Game

Abstract

Evolution in the field of microcontrollers and the development/debugging tools available for them has led to the use of embedded systems in innumerable applications [2, 3]. “Microcontroller based Display Systems for Basketball Game” were developed to enhance the expertise of the faculty members and to demonstrate undergraduate students the extent to which Embedded Systems can be used for day to day problems. This paper presents the design and development of microcontroller based displays which can be used for basketball game to keep track of various time events. They are used to keep track of the time the ball is with a player which should not exceed 24 s and to down count the game time of 10 minutes. There are three displays, two synchronized 24 s down counters of size 40cm x 45cm each and one 10 minutes Game Timer of size 40cm x 92cm. Systems are designed using AT89c51 microcontroller. Software was implemented in assembly language and was developed using “Keil µVision2” package. The displays are being tested for live matches.