The Designer’s Guide to the Cortex-M Family is a tutorial-based book giving the key concepts required to develop programs in C with a Cortex M- based processor. The book begins with an overview of the Cortex- M family, giving architectural descriptions supported with practical examples, enabling the engineer to easily develop basic C programs to run on the Cortex- M0/M0+/M3 and M4. It then examines the more advanced features of the Cortex architecture such as memory protection, operating modes and dual stack operation. Once a firm grounding in the Cortex M processor has been established the book introduces the use of a small footprint RTOS and the CMSIS DSP library.
With this book you will learn:
- The key differences between the Cortex M0/M0+/M3 and M4
- How to write C programs to run on Cortex-M based processors
- How to make best use of the Coresight debug system
- How to do RTOS development
- The Cortex-M operating modes and memory protection
- Advanced software techniques that can be used on Cortex-M microcontrollers
- How to optimise DSP code for the cortex M4 and how to build real time DSP systems
- An Introduction to the Cortex microcontroller software interface standard (CMSIS), a common framework for all Cortex M- based microcontrollers
- Coverage of the CMSIS DSP library for Cortex M3 and M4
- An evaluation tool chain IDE and debugger which allows the accompanying example projects to be run in simulation on the PC or on low cost hardware