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. Tom Spink is a lecturer in computer science at the University of St Andrews. Throughout his research, he has pioneered the use of hardware virtualization support for dynamic binary translation, and he is currently investigating how Internet of Things systems can be efficiently simulated at scale. He is broadly interested in the area of computer systems, and more specifically compilers, runtimes, virtualization, and operating systems.

Part 1: Essentials of embedded systems, and developing with mbed 1. Embedded systems, microcontrollers and arm 2. Introducing the mbed ecosystem 3. Digital input and output 4. Analog output 5. Analog input 6. Real time, and the mbed real time operating system 7. Starting with serial communications 8. Liquid crystal displays 9. Interrupts, timers and tasks 10. Memory and data management Part 2: Moving to advanced and specialist applications 11. More on the rtos 12. Wireless communication – bluetooth and zigbee 13. Internet communication and control 14. Applying mbed to digital audio 15. Some hardware insights: clocks, power supply, and very low power Appendix a. Some number systems b. Some c/c++ essentials c. Mbed technical data d. Parts list e. Terminal emulation