ARM-Based Microcontroller Multitasking Projects

Dogan Ibrahim graduated from the University of Salford with First Class Honours in Electronic Engineering. He then completed an MSc course in Automatic Control Engineering at the University of Manchester, and PhD in Digital Signal Processing at the City University in London. Prof Ibrahim worked at several companies and gained industrial experience before returning to the academic life. Prof Ibrahim is currently a Fellow of the IET, and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. His interests are in the fields of microcontroller based automatic control, digital signal processing, and computer aided design. Dogan Ibrahim has been a lecturer at South Bank University, London, and Principal Research Engineer at GEC Hirst Research Centre. Prof Ibrahim is the author of over 70 technical books in the fields of microcontrollers and electronic engineering. He is currently a systems consultant, carrying out consultancy work to various firms in London.

About the anthor
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Microcomputer systems
2. Architecture of arm microcontrollers
3. ARM Cortex microcontroller development boards
4. Clicker 2 for STM32 development board
5. Programming the arm microcontrollers
6. Programming using the mikroC Pro for ARM
7. Introduction to multitasking
8. Introduction to FreeRTOS
9. Using the FreeRTOS functions
10. Queue management
11. Semaphores and mutexes
12. Event groups
13. Software timers
14. Some example projects
15. The Idle task and idle task hook
16. Task Notifications
17. Critical sections
18. Interrupts in Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers
19. USING the FreeRTOS API function calls from an ISR
20. Car park management system
21. Time in different cities
22. Mobile robot project: the Buggy
Appedix A. Number systems
Appendix B. The program description language
Index