Embedded System Programming

The course provides the skills needed to develop software for embedded systems. The course explains the architecture common to most 8-bit micro controllers, then demonstrates the advantages of programming in C instead of the micro controller's specific assembly language, including faster development, improved portability, and reusability. This course also covers more advanced parts of the C language like pre-processor, complex declarations and expressions, recursion, pointers and data structures. This is a very practical, results-oriented course, which will provide knowledge and skills which can be applied immediately.

• Good programming knowledge.

• C programming basics

• Duration: 72 hours

• Span: 6 weeks

Advanced C

Types, Declaration, Exp, functions

• Basic types and declarations

• Initialization

• Const and volatile

• Expressions and operators

• Short Circuiting

• Size of

• typedef

• Functions

• Stack

• Importance of Function Prototypes

• storage class

Pointer and Array Basics

• Simple Pointers

• Single Dimensional Arrays

• Arrays Initialization

• Pointer and Array Names

• Pointer Arithmetic

• The Square bracket Notation

• Passing Arrays to Function

• Returning Arrays from Function Pitfall

• NULL Pointers

• Function Pointers

Pointers and Strings

• Strings

• String Literals

• String Literals and Arrays

• Null Strings

• String Literal Pitfalls

Structures and Unions

• Purpose of Structures

• Structure Initialization

• Arrays of struct

• Field Alignment and Padding

• Field Offsets

• Self Referential Structures

• Mutually Referential Structures

• Purpose of Unions

• Union Initialization

• Incomplete types

The Linear Dynamic Data Structures

• Need for Dynamic Data Structures

• The Stack and Queue Data Structures

• The Linked List Data Structure

• Dynamic Memory Allocation

Recursion

• Recursive Computation of a Factorial

• Recursive Computation of the Fibonacci Number Sequence

Preprocessor

• Preprocessor Constants

• Preprocessor Macros

• Macro Pitfalls

• Conditional Compilation

• Stringization Operator

• Token Pasting Operator

Embedded System Programming

Introduction

• What Is an Embedded System?

• Define the components of an embedded systems

Hardware Fundamentals

• Logic Gates

• Flip flops

• Clocks

• Counters and Shift Registers

• Decoders and Encoders

• Demultiplexers and Multiplexers

• Read Only Memory (ROM) - PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash EEPROM

• Random Access Memory (RAM) - Static RAM, Dynamic RAM

Micro Controller

• Introduction

• Architecture

• On-chip program Memory

• On-chip Data RAM

• Bi-directional and Individually Addressable IO Lines

• Timers/Counters

• UART

• Interrupt Structure

• Clock Oscillator

• On Chip I2C and SPI bus controllers

Programming

• Create embedded applications.

• Write, compile, link, and test embedded C programs.

• Use the embedded tools including: IDE, C compiler and linker.

• Download and run programs on an evaluation target board.

Keyboard interface

• Keyboard Basics

• Matrix Keyboard Scanning Algorithm

• Using the Matrix Keyboard Module

LED Displays

• Multiplexed LED Display Module

• Using the Multiplexed LED Display Module

Liquid Crystal Displays

• character LCD Modules

• using LCD Module Display

Real Time Clock

• RTC display module

• using RTC Module

Analog I/Os

• Analog Inputs

• Reading an ADC

• using Analog I/O Module

Asynchronous Serial Communications

• RS-232C

• Sending and Receiving Data using Serial Ports on a PC