Embedded - ARM Community. The Concept: The batteryless energy harvesting remote control was a project undertaken to demonstrate the low power of the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor. We wanted to create an extremely low power remote control that was compatible with the vast majority of existing systems. As a result, the remote control had to be able to learn, store and repeat infrared protocols and commands. In addition to this primary objective, we wanted to use as many of the on chip features as we possibly could. Using the MCU for as many tasks as possible has the advantage of keeping power consumption down and also demonstrates some of the additional features that are emerging in MCU’s such as the one we used, the MkL25Z128VLK4 from Freescale. By using the built in peripherals of the MCU, for example touch sensing, we were able to reduce the number of integrated circuits on the PCB and make the design much simpler than it would otherwise have been.
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