COURSE OBJECTIVES :

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Participants completing the Embedded C /C for MicrocontrollerCourse will be equipped with ala technical skills required to develop a full Industrial strength Embedded System solution using ‘C’ as programming language. The course will cover all three major stages of the product development cycle:

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• Developing
• Implementing
• Integrating

SUITABLE FOR

Programmers and engineers who already have some understanding of programming and who now wish to gain a solid understanding of the use of C for embedded systems software development.

PREREQUISITES

Attendees should have a basic knowledge of C programming.

Days

3 days

Course Contents

Why C in Embedded

Fundamentals of C
Data types and Constants
Simple & Formatted I/O
Memory Usage
Operators & Expressions
Flow Control
Loops

Storage Classes
Scope and Life
Automatic, Static, External, Register, Volatile
Memory(CPU / RAM)

Functions

Pass by value / reference
Returning values from Functions
Recursive Functions
Reentrant functions
Call Back Functions
Implications on Stack

Arrays

Defining, initializing and using arrays

Multi Dimensional Arrays

Arrays and Pointers

Structures & Unions

What structures are for

Declaration, initialization

Accessing like objects

Nested Structures

Array of Structures

Passing structures through functions

Allocation of memory and holes

Structure Comparison Structure bit operation

Typedef for portability

Unions

Overlapping members

Enumerated data types

Enum, Indexing,

enum Vs #define

Bit Operations

AND ( & ), OR ( | ), XOR ( ^ )

Compliment ( ~ )

Left-Shift ( << ), Right Shift ( >> )

Masking, Setting, Clearing and Testing of Bit / Bits

Pointers

The purpose of pointers

Defining pointers

The & and * operators

Pointer Assignment

Pointer Arithmetic

Multiple indirections

Advanced pointer types

Generic and Null Pointer

Function Pointers

Pointers to Arrays and Strings

Array of Pointers
Pointers to Structure and Union

Pointers to Dynamic memory

Far, Near and Huge Pointers

Pointer Type Casting

Complicated pointer declarations

Creating look up tables and Vector tables using pointers

Accessing peripherals using pointers

Dynamic Memory Allocation

Malloc(), Calloc(), Realloc(), Free()

Farmalloc(), Farcalloc()

Advanced Data Structures

Single, Double & Circular Linked Lists

Stacks & Queues

Binary Trees

Hash Tables

Device Drivers: Introduction and development Techniques

What is a Device Driver

Types of Device Drivers

Building a device driver

Integrating a Device driver

Module 2: ‘C ‘for Microcontrollers
Introduction to some leading microcontroller families
Overview of Architecture of 8051

Processor Core and Functional Block Diagram

Description of memory organization

Overview of ALL SFR’s and their basic functionality

Overview of typical on-chip peripherals

Overview of Architecture of ARM7TDMI (LPC 2138/LPC2129/LPC2148)

Processor Core and Functional Block Diagram

Description of memory organization

Overview of ALL SFR’s and their basic functionality

Overview of typical on-chip peripherals

Low-level Programming Concepts

Addressing Modes

Interrupts handling

Startup code

Programming on Chip Peripherals

Complier directives

Memory Models

Library routines

Peripherals Interfacing Techniques

LEDS

Switches (Momentary type, Toggle type)

Seven Segment Display
LCD (4bit, 8bit, Busy Flag, Custom Character Generation)

Keypad Matrix

Stepper motor, DC Motor

RTC:800583,DS1307 ADC:PCF8591, DS1621)

ADC , DAC, PWM

SPI Protocols

I2C Protocol

EEPROM

SD Cards

Module 3: Real Time OS, Development tool chains

What is Real Time Computing

Overview firmware development strategies

Why we need a Real Time Operating System

Concept of Multi-Tasking Programs

Theory of Operation

A typical RTOS building Blocks

Task scheduling policies

Porting on to H/W Implementation Examples

Keil uVision / RIDE 51 Tool chain

Overview

Specifications

Setting up Development and debugging environment

Compiler

Linker

Make utility

Object files

Multiple C file Program Development

Project management

Build process Dynamically Loading Libraries (DLL)

Optimization Techniques

Programming Target