What you'll learn
Create professional grade embedded applications.
Produce embedded applications employing THE most widely used programming language ever.
Benefit from a wide variety of C compiler and preprocessor tricks to help you make better embedded applications.
Requirements
You should know Basic Microcontroller Programming. This course assumes you know how to program, so general good programming practices are assumed and not enforced in this course (meaningful variable names, commenting your code, indentation, etc.)
You should at least be familiar with the C Programming Language (Good news, just so you know: The Arduino uses C).
Description
In this fourth part of the Beyond Arduino series, you'll learn many techniques to produce more efficient and professional embedded applications. It's time to leave the toy programs behind.
You'll learn how to handle memory-attached hardware registers properly, how to perform bitwise manipulation of data, how to handle interrupts on your microcontroller development platform, and many other techniques which you aren't always aware of because of the immense body of elements that conceal the details in many beginner platforms, like the Arduino, for the sake of simplicity.
You'll also learn how to deal with very basic, typically 8-bit, microcontrollers that don't have a Floating Point Unit and still write code that gets the job done in the best way possible even with the limited resources available.
After grasping this knowledge, we expect you to think differently when designing your embedded applications in the future. By adding these best practices to your bag of tricks, you'll get one step closer to making embedded applications like a professional, and hopefully you'll feel less like a beginner.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Course Structure
Lecture 2 Instructor Introduction
Lecture 3 Motivation #1
Lecture 4 Motivation #2
Lecture 5 What's with the C/C++ thing?
Section 2: The C Programming Language Review
Lecture 6 Introduction
Lecture 7 Characteristics of C
Lecture 8 C is a Compiled Programming Language
Lecture 9 C vs. Java
Lecture 10 Syntax
Lecture 11 Hello World
Lecture 12 Variables and Arithmetic
Lecture 13 If-Then-Else Statements
Lecture 14 Case Statements
Lecture 15 Loops
Lecture 16 Supported Data Types
Lecture 17 Different Sizes of int - Arduino
Lecture 18 Different Sizes of int - Keil
Lecture 19 Different Sizes of int - CodeWarrior
Lecture 20 Chars aren't characters
Lecture 21 No Strings in C
Lecture 22 Character Arrays
Lecture 23 No Booleans Either
Lecture 24 Arrays
Lecture 25 Pointers
Lecture 26 Pointers Example Code
Lecture 27 Pointers can be Indexed and Arrays Indirected
Lecture 28 Functions
Lecture 29 Functions Example Code
Lecture 30 Passing Parameters by Value or Reference
Lecture 31 Example of Pointers and Parameters
Section 3: A Few Preprocessor Tricks
Lecture 32 The C Preprocessor
Lecture 33 Defining Constants
Lecture 34 #define vs const
Lecture 35 Which is Better?
Lecture 36 Conditional Inclusion of Code
Lecture 37 Conditional Inclusion of Code Example
Lecture 38 Embedded Debugging with a Knife in the Woods
Lecture 39 The #else Directive
Lecture 40 Wikipedia Example
Lecture 41 Live Demo: Conditional Inclusion of Code
Lecture 42 Include Guards
Lecture 43 Key Ideas
Section 4: A Few Compiler Tricks
Lecture 44 The C Compiler
Lecture 45 Use Portable Data Types
Lecture 46 First, a Thought Experiment
Lecture 47 The Answers
Lecture 48 Reason #1: Multiprocessors
Lecture 49 Reason #2: Multithreading
Lecture 50 Reason #3: Hardware-Attached Variables
Lecture 51 Reason #4: Interrupts
Lecture 52 The volatile Qualifier
Lecture 53 volatile Demo in Codewarrior
Lecture 54 Time Consuming Blocking Delays
Lecture 55 Example: Blocking Delays
Lecture 56 LPC1114 Tutorial
Lecture 57 The KEIL Project
Lecture 58 The delay() Function
Lecture 59 The Rest of the Code
Lecture 60 The main() Function
Lecture 61 The walk() Function
Lecture 62 Remember the const Qualifier
Section 5: Bitwise Manipulation
Lecture 63 Bit Manipulation
Lecture 64 Bit Masking
Lecture 65 The trick: Binary Masks
Lecture 66 How to Set a Bit
Lecture 67 How to Clear a Bit
Lecture 68 Setting and Clearing Multiple Bits
Lecture 69 A Real Microcontroller Example
Lecture 70 Setting and clearing select bits
Lecture 71 Reacting to Select Bits
Lecture 72 Reacting to Select bits
Lecture 73 Inverting Select Bits
Lecture 74 Inverting Select Bits
Lecture 75 A Meaningful Code Example
Lecture 76 Implementation Tips
Lecture 77 More Clever ways to access bits
Lecture 78 A Code Example
Lecture 79 Bit Masking Demo in Arduino
Lecture 80 Bit Fields
Lecture 81 Bit Fields Demo in Dev C++
Lecture 82 Bit Fields Demo in CodeWarrior
Lecture 83 Bit Fields in Libraries
Lecture 84 Key Ideas
Section 6: Alternatives to Traditional Functions
Lecture 85 Alternatives to Functions
Lecture 86 Lookup Tables
Lecture 87 Lookup Table Definition
Lecture 88 Lookup Tables Example Code
Lecture 89 Lookup Tables Caveats
Lecture 90 Lookup Tables Demo in Arduino
Lecture 91 Lookup Tables in ROM or RAM
Lecture 92 Tradeoff between Lookup Tables and Traditional Functions
Lecture 93 Macro Functions
Lecture 94 Points for the Macro Function
Lecture 95 Points for the Traditional Function
Lecture 96 Macro Functions
Lecture 97 Function Inlining
Lecture 98 Inline Functions
Lecture 99 Forcing vs. Suggesting
Lecture 100 Macros vs Inline Functions
Lecture 101 Key Ideas
Section 7: What to do when there's no Floating Point Unit
Lecture 102 What to do Without a Floating Point Unit
Lecture 103 About Floating Point Numbers
Lecture 104 Floating Point Number Formats
Lecture 105 Binary 32 Floating Point Format - IEEE 754
Lecture 106 Floats are Not Perfect
Lecture 107 Some Numbers are Impossible to Represent as floats
Lecture 108 Floating Point Types in C
Lecture 109 About FPUs
Lecture 110 How FPU-less microcontrollers manage without an FPU
Lecture 111 Software Implementations of Floats
Lecture 112 Float Inaccuracies
Lecture 113 Inaccuracies Demo in Dev C++
Lecture 114 Fixed Point Numbers
Lecture 115 Powers of 2 Scaling Factors
Lecture 116 Fixed Point Math
Lecture 117 Standardized Fixed Point Formats
Lecture 118 Fixed Point is a Real Option
Lecture 119 A Fixed Point Library
Lecture 120 Fixed vs. Floating Point Demo in Arduino
Lecture 121 A Very Clever Fixed Point Trick
Lecture 122 Just Integers
Lecture 123 Wait! Having an FPU isn't a Silver Bullet
Lecture 124 Key Ideas
Section 8: Wrap Up
Lecture 125 Think of All the Things we Learned
Lecture 126 What's Next?
Lecture 127 Farewell
Lecture 128 Bonus Lecture: LabsLand and more from Closure Labs!
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