You're reading from Bare-Metal Embedded C Programming Develop high-performance embedded systems with C for Arm microcontrollers

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835460818

Length 438 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

ARM Cortex

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Israel Gbati

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Tools of the Trade FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Constructing Peripheral Registers from Memory Addresses

3. Chapter 3: Understanding the Build Process and Exploring the GNU Toolchain

4. Chapter 4: Developing the Linker Script and Startup File

5. Chapter 5: The “Make” Build System

6. Chapter 6: The Common Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS)

7. Chapter 7: The General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Peripheral

8. Chapter 8: System Tick (SysTick) Timer

9. Chapter 9: General-Purpose Timers (TIM)

10. Chapter 10: The Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter Protocol

11. Chapter 11: Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)

12. Chapter 12: Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

13. Chapter 13: Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)

14. Chapter 14: External Interrupts and Events (EXTI)

15. Chapter 15: The Real-Time Clock (RTC)

16. Chapter 16: Independent Watchdog (IWDG)

17. Chapter 17: Direct Memory Access (DMA)

18. Chapter 18: Power Management and Energy Efficiency in Embedded Systems

19. Index

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