Microcontrollers
Microcontroller Bring-up Studio
Clock trees, reset sequencing, and debug access from first power-on to a repeatable flashing ritual.
- Duration
- 5 weeks · 60 lab hours
- Format
- On-site intensive
- Cohort
- August 2025
- Informational price
- KRW 1,280,000
Program narrative
Walk the first hours of a board’s life: probe rails, validate crystal/PLL choices, and script OpenOCD/GDB workflows your teammates can reuse. You will document power states, practice safe bootloader handoffs, and leave with a bring-up log template that survives design reviews.
What ships in the syllabus
- Power rail sequencing checklist tied to schematic nets
- Clock configuration workshop with measured drift discussion
- OpenOCD config pairs for SWD and JTAG paths
- Reset and watchdog experiments with annotated scope shots
- Flash layout planning for dual-bank experiments
- Fault injection table for brown-out scenarios
- Peer review of bring-up logs
Outcomes we can observe
- Produce a signed-off bring-up log for a reference board
- Automate flash + verify steps for two boot paths
- Present a five-minute risk brief on clock dependencies
Sora Kwon
Lab engineer focused on reproducible factory fixtures and low-noise probing.
Cohort murmurs
Quote-first
Reset sequencing lab mirrored what broke on our last spin — the fault table is now part of our wiki.
Jiwon · Hardware intern · survey
OpenOCD pairing took a morning to grok, but the scripted verify step saved us a week later.
Elena M. · Northwave Instruments · 4/5
Still slower than our senior on PLLs, but I can narrate trade-offs instead of guessing.
Quote only — cohort member