Microcontrollers. Hardware and firmware for 8-bit and 32-bit devices. E-book. Formato PDF - 9788835817512

Microcontrollers. Hardware and firmware for 8-bit and 32-bit devices. E-book. Formato PDF. The book discusses in details the main hardware and firmware fundamentals about micro- controllers. The goal is to present all the concepts necessary to understand and design an embedded system based on microcontrollers.<br />The book discusses on:<ul> <li>Binary logic and arithmetic;</li> <li>Embedded-systems basics;</li> <li>Low-end 8-bit microcontrollers by Microchip and STMicroelectronics;</li> <li>On-chip memories, Input/Output ports, peripherals;</li> <li>Assembly instruction sets;</li> <li>EasyPIC evaluation board by MikroElektronika;</li> <li>High-end 32-bit cores by ARM-Cortex;</li> <li>STM32F4 microprocessor by STMicroelectronics;</li> <li>Nucleo board for STM32F4 by STMicroelectronics;</li> <li>Custom developed board.</li></ul>The book is not targeted for just either low-end or high-end microcontrollers. Instead, the book fully describes both, moving from the basics of microcontroller systems, to 8-bit devices and then to the 32-bit ones.In fact, the book targets well-renowned, commercially-available microcontrollers by the microelectronic leaders in the field. As for low-end 8-bit microcontrollers, the book reviews the widely-spread and well-assessed devices by Microchip (the PIC16 family) and by STMicroelectronics (the ST6 family). Instead, as for high-end 32-bit microcontrollers, the book presents the leading-edge M3 and M4 cores by ARM-Cortex and its implementation by STMicroelectronics (the STM32F4 series).The Book is very modular and most Chapters can be used as stand-alone mini text books (e.g., Chapter 3 &ndash; &ldquo;8-bit microcontrollers&rdquo;, Chapter 5 &ndash; &ldquo;ARM-Cortex architectures&rdquo;, Chapter 6 &ndash; &ldquo;STM32 microcontroller&rdquo;). Moreover, Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 provide a very useful insight to electronic circuits employing microcontrollers and on-board components, by means of the EasyPIC v7 board by Mikroelektronika (for PIC microcontrollers) and Nucleo board by STmicroelectronics (for the STM32 ARM-Cortex M4 microcontrollers).