Overview
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Learn to write embedded software in C and deliver applications that are small, efficient, and fast.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Getting started in embedded systems
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Applications: OS vs. embedded
- Memory
- Storage
- Energy consumption
- Processing power
- Hardware awareness
- C vs. Embedded C
- Integral types
- Floating-point types
- A quick analysis of memory usage with Keil
- Checking memory usage with Arduino
- Masking
- Bit masking with Arduino
- Bit fields
- A bit field example with Keil
- The volatile qualifier
- The const qualifier
- Protect variables using volatile
- Don't let the optimizer remove your while loop
- Lookup tables
- Macro functions
- Inline functions
- LUT vs. function example in Arduino
- LUT vs. function example in Keil
- Inline function example in Keil
- Software implementation of float
- Fixed-point math
- Float-point vs. fixed-point example
- Float-point unit example in Keil
- Next steps
