Fast and Effective Embedded Systems Design

Tim Wilmshurst has designed numerous embedded and electronic systems, including systems in climatic monitoring, earthquake research, wind tunnels, and autonomous vehicles. He is the author of several textbooks on embedded system design. In his teaching, Tim advocates “learning through doing” and problem-based learning. He has been Head of Electrical Engineering at Botswana Polytechnic, Senior Design Engineer at Cambridge University, and Head of Electronics at Derby University. He is now a freelance technical author and educator. Rob Toulson is a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, as well as founder and director of RT Sixty, a company that develops innovative applications for the audiovisual and music industries. His expertise covers a broad range of fields, including mobile application development, digital signal processing, embedded systems, musical acoustics, music production, and interactive sound design.

1 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, MICROCONTROLLERS and ARM 2 INTRODUCING the MBED 3. DIGITAL INPUT and OUTPUT 4. ANALOG OUTPUT 5. ANALOG INPUT 6 FURTHER PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES 7. STARTING with SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS 8. LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 9. INTERRUPTS, TIMERS and TASKS 10 MEMORY and DATA MANAGEMENT 11 An INTRODUCTION to DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 12 ADVANCED SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS 13 An INTRODUCTION to CONTROL SYSTEMS 14 LETTING GO of the MBED LIBRARIES 15 EXTENSION PROJECTS APPENDIX A: SOME NUMBER SYSTEMS APPENDIX B: SOME C ESSENTIALS APPENDIX C: MBED TECHNICAL DATA APPENDIX D: PARTS LIST APPENDIX E: The TERA TERM TERMINAL EMULATOR