Emblitz

Tapping the power of E-learning

Affordable, self-learning kits from Emblitz teach you Microcontrollers and Embedded
Systems Design from scratch

For the past decade, India has been a hotbed of activity in Embedded Systems design, with
many multi-national companies setting up their Research & Development centres in the
country. Huge career opportunities were thus presented to students and professionals, who
needed to learn and improve their knowledge of Microcontroller programming and their
applications. Keeping this in mind, a group of young professionals, who had already carved a
niche for themselves in the industry, decided to group together and created Emblitz, one of
the leading brands in Embedded Development Starter kits and Development Boards in India.
Emblitz also started providing classroom courses from its training facility in Bangalore, India
and providing corporate training sessions for major companies at their premises. Since then,
Emblitz has been training hundreds of students and professionals in various disciplines of
Embedded Systems Design.

The explosion of the internet and the increasing affordability of computers and accessories
gave birth to the concept of E-learning. This new medium of instruction has introduced the
joy in learning through its highly innovative and interactive, self-paced nature and has been
enthusiastically absorbed by instructors and students alike. Learning has always been more
effective when it happens in a familiar ambience, especially at one’s own home. E-learning
liberates learners from the shackles of geographical distance, discriminations and inhibitions.
It also proves to be cost-effective for students from other cities, who can avoid travelling and
living expenses.

To reach out to students and microcontroller enthusiasts from other cities, Emblitz started a
unique E-learning programme, the Emblitz Varsity Associate Program (EVAT) in Embedded
Systems Design. The course content is structured to learn Embedded Systems from scratch
and presented in CDs and DVDs as classroom video sessions. It is supplemented with a
course guide, reference books, a hardware kit with example programs and project ideas.
Using these, anyone can master microcontroller programming at his own pace, though it is
designed to be completed in approximately 70 hours. Many students and hobbyists from all
over the world have procured this very affordable, self-learning kit and have benefited from
its well-documented contents, which is presented in easy to understand lectures and
demonstrations in English.

Following a huge demand from students to cater to other disciplines in Embedded Systems,
Emblitz introduced a second EVAT course in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Design.
This training course consists of 8 modules starting with the basics. The training is based on
FPGA design using Xilinx Spartan 3E and programming using Verilog. Through carefully
documented video sessions, reference books and instructional materials, the student is guided
step-by-step from the basics to the advanced concepts and finally an 8-bit Picoblaze
microprocessor is implemented using an FPGA. The necessary hardware and programs also
form part of the kit.
ARM(Advanced RISC Machine) is now the one of the most popular architectures in
Embedded Systems. Introduced by Acorn Computers, ARM has found its way into several
SoC’s made by leading semiconductor companies around the world. There was a huge
demand from students to provide a similar training course for ARM and so Emblitz
introduced a third EVAT course, the ARM Online crash course. This training programme is
designed in such a way that even students and professionals having minimal basic electronic
knowledge can master ARM architecture and programming concepts in less than a week’s
time. The course content is spread over 19 CDs with video classroom sessions, reference
books, and example programs. An ARM kit, complete with an ARM7 development board,
JTAG Wiggler and other accessories along with the required software form part of the kit and
it is also supported with exhaustive documentation.

The special feature of the Emblitz EVAT programme is that the course content is developed
by experts who have years of hands-on working experience in Embedded design and having
a great reputation in Embedded systems’ training. Emblitz boasts of a team of expert
engineers who are very knowledgeable, competent and experienced , who are available for
live support over skype and email to students to assist any kind of enquiries and doubts that
may come up while the student is pursuing the EVAT course. This facility, coupled with the
advantage of learning from home at one’s own pace has attracted hundreds of students and
hobbyists from all over the world to register for the courses and their testimonials
demonstrate the effectiveness of the EVAT programme.

Emblitz also provides Evaluation Boards, Starter kits and development tools for various
microcontrollers, microprocessors and their derivatives. Emblitz has also developed a Hard
Real Time Operating System called Avxi™ , exclusively meant for small and medium-scale
embedded applications. There are many future plans on the anvil as Embedded Technology is
set to evolve by leaps and bounds in the days to come.

Web Links:
Emblitz : www.emblitz.com