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C Programming for Embedded Systems

Kirk Zurell

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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Walter Banks at Byte Craft Limited for dropping me head-first into the world of embedded programming. Walter and Andre have provided copious expertise in the very finest points of C programming and code generation. I would also like to thank my parents, who went out on a limb and purchased that Commodore 64 all those years ago. I hereby disclose publicly that I did not wash the dishes forever, as promised.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Role of This Book 1 Benefits of C in Embedded Systems 2 Outline of the Book 3 Typographical Conventions 3 Updates and Supplementary Information 4 Chapter 2 Problem Specification 5 Product Requirements 5 Hardware Engineering 6 Software Planning 8 Software Architecture 9 Pseudocode 10 Flowchart 11 State Diagram 12 Resource Management 13 Testing Regime 14

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Chapter 3 Microcontrollers In-depth 17 The Central Processing Unit (CPU) 19 Instruction Sets 20 The Stack 20 Memory Addressing and Types 21 RAM and ROM 22 ROM and Programming 22 von Neumann Versus Harvard Architectures 23 Timers 24 Watchdog Timer 25 Examples 26 26 Interrupt Circuitry 26 Vectored and Nonvectored Arbitration 27 Saving State during Interrupts 29 Executing Interrupt Handlers 30 Multiple Interrupts 31 RESET 31 I/O Ports 32 Analog-to-Digital Conversion 33 Serial Peripheral Buses 34 Development Tools for a Microcontroller 36 Chapter 4 Design Process 37

Product Functionality 37 Hardware Design 38 Software Design 39 Software Architecture 39 Flowchart 40 Resource Management 42 Scratch Pad 42 Interrupt Planning 42 Testing Choices 44 Design for Debugging 44 Code Inspection 44 Execution within a Simulator Environment 45 Execution within an Emulator Environment 45 Target System in a Test Harness 45

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Chapter 5 C for Embedded Systems 47 In-line Assembly Language 47 Device Knowledge 49 #pragma has 49 #pragma port 51 Endianness 52 Mechanical Knowledge 52 Libraries 54 First Look at an Embedded C Program 54 Chapter 6 Data Types and Variables 57 Identifier Declaration 59 Special Data Types and Data Access 59 Function Data Types 60 The Character Data Type 60 Integer Data Types 61 Byte Craft's Sized Integers 61 Bit Data Types 61 Real Numbers 63 Complex Data Types 63 Pointers 63 Arrays 64 Enumerated Types 65

Structures 66 Unions 68 typedef 69 Data Type Modifiers 70 Value Constancy Modifiers: const and volatile 70 Allowable Values Modifiers: signed and unsigned 71 Size Modifiers: short and long 72 Pointer Size Modifiers: near and far 72 Storage Class Modifiers 73 External Linkage 73 Internal Linkage 73 No Linkage 74 The extern Modifier 74 The static Modifier 75 The register Modifier 76 The auto Modifier 77