The necessities in Microprocessor Based System Design

Background

Combinational and Sequential Circuits

• Adder
• Latches and Flipflops

FSM

• FSM
• FSM Example

Tiny CPU Example

• Instruction Set
• Data Path
• Control Path
• FPGA Implementation

Microprocessor Architecture

• ARM Architecture

- Programmer's Model (pdf)

- Pipelined Architecture (pdf)

• ARM Organization

• ARM Cortex-M Processor Architecture
• ARM Processor Cores

Instruction Set Architecture

• ARM Instruction Set

- Overview (pdf)

- Addressing Modes (pdf)

- Multiple Transfer (pdf)

- Assembler Format

- Data Processing (pdf)

- Data Transfer (pdf)

- Coprocessor (pdf)

- Summary (pdf)

- Binary Encoding (pdf)

• Thumb Instruction Set

Assembly Programming

ARM Assembly Programming (I)

• 1. Overview (pdf)
• 2. Example Programs (pdf)
• 3. Addressing Modes (pdf)
• 4. Data Transfer (pdf)
• 5. Data Processing (pdf)
• 6. Control (pdf)
• 7. Arrays (pdf)
• 8. Data Structures (pdf)
• 9. Finite State Machines (pdf)
• 10. Functions (pdf)
• 11. Parameter Passing (pdf)
• 12. Stack Frames (pdf)

ARM Assembly Programming (II)

• 1. Branch and Return Methods (pdf)
• 2. PC Relative Addressing (pdf)
• 3. Thumb instruction Set (pdf)
• 4. Exceptions (pdf)
• 5. Exception Programming (pdf)
• 6. Exception Handlers (pdf)
• 7. Interrupt Programming (pdf)
• 8. Interrupt Handlers (pdf)
• 9. Vectored Interrupt Programming (pdf)
• 10. Tail Chaining (pdf)

• ARM Assembly Exercises (A.pdf, B.pdf)

ARM Assembly Programming (III)

• 1. Fixed point arithmetic (integer division)
• 2. Floating point arithmetic
• 3. Matrix multiply

ARM Linking

• arm link (pdf)

ARM Microcontroller Programming

• 1. Input / Output
• 2. Serial / Parallel Port Interfacing
• 3. Analog I/O Interfacing
• 4. Communication

Memory Architecture

Architectural Support

• High Level Languages
• System Development
• Operating Systems

Peripheral Architecture

Timers

• Timer / Counter (pdf)
• Real Time Clock
• Watchdog Timer

Serial Bus

• UART : Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (pdf)
• I2C : Inter-Integrated Circuit
• SPI : Serial Peripheral Interface
• USB : Universal Serial Bus Device Controller

I/Os

• General Purpose Input/Output ports (GPIO)
• Pulse Width Modulator
• Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
• Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)

Synchrnoization

H/W and S/W Synchronization

• busy wait synchronization
• handshake interface

Interrupt Synchronization

• interrupt synchronization
• reentrant programming
• buffered IO
• periodic interrupt
• periodic polling

Interfacing

Time Interfacing

• input capture
• output compare

Serial Interfacing

• Programming UART
• Programming SPI
• Programming I2C
• Programming USB

Analog Interfacing

• OP Amp
• Filters
• ADC
• DAC

Old materials

Instruction Set Architecture

• ARM Instruction Set

- Overview (pdf)

- Binary Encoding (pdf)

- Assembler Format (pdf)

• Thumb Instruction Set
• ARM Assembly Language (pdf)
• ARM Machine Language (pdf)

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