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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to work on microcontroller hardware
   • Work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements and workplace procedures for a given work area are obtained and applied
2. WHS/OHS risk control work preparation measures and procedures are followed
3. Nature of microcontroller hardware problems is obtained from documentation or from work supervisor to establish the scope of work to be undertaken
4. Advice is sought from the work supervisor to ensure the work is coordinated effectively with others
5. Sources of materials required for the work are established in accordance with workplace procedures
6. Tools, equipment and testing devices needed to carry out the work are obtained and checked for correct operation and safety
7. Solve microcontroller hardware and firmware problems
   • WHS/OHS risk control work measures and procedures are followed
8. Need to test or measure live work is determined in strict accordance with WHS/OHS requirements and, as required, conducted within established safety procedures
9. Circuits are checked as being isolated, as necessary, in strict accordance with WHS/OHS requirements and workplace procedures
10. Established methods are used to solve problems from measured and calculated values as they apply to microcontroller hardware
11. Unplanned situations are responded to in accordance with workplace procedures in a manner that minimises risk to personnel and equipment
12. Problems are solved without unnecessary damage to apparatus, circuits, the surrounding environment or services using sustainable energy practices
13. Complete work and document problem-solving activities
    • WHS/OHS work completion risk control measures and procedures are followed
14. Worksite is cleaned and made safe in accordance with established procedures
15. Justification for solutions used to solve circuit problems are documented
16. Work completion is documented and appropriate person/s notified in accordance with workplace procedures

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the UEE Electrotechnology Training Package Companion Volume Implementation Guide.
Troubleshooting must include at least two of the following types of microcontroller hardware problems:	determining the operating parameters of an existing circuit altering an existing circuit to comply with specified operating parameters developing circuits to comply with a specified function and operating parameters

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements, performance criteria and range of conditions on at least two separate occasions and include:

applying relevant work health and safety (WHS)/occupational health and safety (WHS/OHS) requirements, workplace procedures and practices, including using risk control measures applying sustainable energy principles and practices calculating parameters correctly and accurately dealing with unplanned events/situations in accordance with workplace procedures in a manner that minimises risk to personnel and equipment providing solutions to microcontroller component/circuit problems providing written justification for the solutions to problems taking measurements correctly and accurately using an industry standard programming environment to load, test and debug code using methodical problem-solving methods using a microcontroller’s internal communications peripherals to communicate with a secondary device, including microcontroller, computer and/or sensor.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements, performance criteria and range of conditions and include knowledge of:

dealing with intermittent faults electronic fault-finding techniques and fault identification techniques fault-finding methods, including visual inspection, sectional testing, split-half tests and component isolation input/output (I/O) ports: analogue/digital integrated peripherals, including timers, interrupts, hardware multiplier, internal oscillators, comparators, analogue to digital converter's (ADC’s) and digital to analogue converter's (DAC’s), pulse width modulation (PWM) modules and serial ports interfacing different logic level voltages in a microcontroller circuit microcontroller-based systems troubleshooting microcontroller internal peripheral communication circuitry and associated hardware and protocols (examples include but not limited to recommended standard 232 (RS-232), I²C, SPI, and 1 wire microcontroller systems, including: digital systems concepts associated with microcontroller-based systems microcontroller architecture microcontroller instruction set microcontroller manufacturers microcontroller system block diagram relevant data storage types relevant job safety assessments or risk mitigation processes relevant logic level standards relevant manufacturer specifications relevant WHS/OHS legislated requirements relevant workplace documentation relevant workplace policies and procedures reset circuit system clock circuitry.

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