Exploring C for Microcontrollers: A Hands on Approach

ISBN-13: 9789048175253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 157 str.

Jivan Parab; Vinod G. Shelake; Rajanish K. Kamat

Opis

If we accept the premise that an embedded engineer is made rather than born, then how does one go about making a good one? The authors ofthisbookExploring C for Microcontrollers: A Hands-on Approach are certainly good ones . Not only do they explore some of the in?uences thatshapedthemselvesbuttheyalsotrytoshape would-be embedded engineers. Research and developmental activities in embedded systems has grown in a signi?cant proportion in the recent past. Embedded so- ware design is not new to the world, but with the changing time, it has gained considerable momentum in the recent past, and many young engineers are strongly inclined to pursue their future in this ?eld. The book is mainly targeted to these engineers who would like to understand in great depth the synergetic combination of hardware and software. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 introduces a brief background about micro-controllers and explains how they are emb- dedintoproductscommerciallyavailableinthemarkettoemphasizethe importance of these in the daily life of mankind. It also gives an insight into the architectural details and embedded system concepts for s- dents projects to motivate them into this exciting ?eld. The rest of the bookconcentratesonsoftwaredevelopment. Theintegrateddevelopment environment (IDE) is introduced in Chapter 2. Again the screen shots and step-by-step procedure will certainly make the students and en- neers fully understand the development process. Chapter 3 di?eren- ates the embedded C paradigm from the conventional ANSI C. Again the authors explain how to successfully overcome the memory and time constraints while developing an embedded C program."

Spis treści

Contents. Preface. Forward. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Microcontrollers Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. 1.1 Defining Microcontrollers. 1.2 Eagle’s view : Microcontrollers and other competing devices. 1.3 Vignettes: Microcontrollers. 1.4. Microcontroller applications. 1.5. Growth Economics. 1.6. The major players in the microcontroller chip market. 1.7. Architectural trends. 1.8. Jump starting your first embedded system project. 1.9. Execution of Embedded System project: Is it a Gordian’s knot? Chapter 2: Integrated Development Environment. 2.1 Getting familiar with the IDE. 2.2 Working with Keil IDE. 2.3 Development flow for the Keil IDE. Chapter 3: Art of C Programming for microcontrollers. 3.1 Familiarizing with your compiler capabilities. 3.2 Whether to use headers or not? 3.3 Basic C Program structure. 3.4 Differences from ANSI C. Chapter 4: Exploring the capabilities of on-chip resources Programming for I/O Ports, Interrupts and Timer/Counter. 4.1 Importance of ports: Playing with the ports. 4.2 Simple ideas for port expansion. 4.3 LED Interfacing. 4.4 Relevance of LEDs in today’s Lightening Industry. 4.5 Different programs for LED interfacing. 4.6 More Projects on LED interfacing to microcontrollers. 4.7 DIP switch interfacing: Getting input to your Embedded System. 4.8 LCD Interfacing. 4.9 Interrupts in microcontrollers. Chapter 5: HyperTerminal based Control. 5.1 Hyperterminal. 5.2 Packet based control scheme. 5.3 Mechanism and lots of possibilities. 5.4 Application 1: Packet based interface for LED’s. 5.5 Application 2: Packet based interface for stepper motor control. 5.6: Application 3: Home automation from PC Hyper-terminal. Chapter 6: Embedding microcontroller in routine applications. 6.1. Application 1: Podium Timer. 6.2 Application 2: Front desk notifier. 6.3Application 3: Cafeteria Food Alert/ microcontroller based menu card. 6.4 Application 4: Chimney Sentinel. 6.5 Application 5: Who’s first timer. 6.6 Application 6: Counting Cars. 6.7 Application 7: Anonymous Voting. 6.8 Energy Efficient Lighting Using Microcontroller. Chapter 7: Microcontroller based Measurement and Control Applications. 7.1Application 1: Reading a PWM waveform using microcontroller. 7.2 Single Set-point On-Off Controller. 7.3 Application 3: I2C Interface with serial EPROM. Chapter 8: Securing your embedded system application. 8.1 Security challenges in Embedded Systems. 8.2 Application 1: Authentication for your embedded system application. 8.3 Application 2: Timeout Waiting For Input Data.

O autorze

Traditional books on embedded systems review the routine architectural features of 8051, description of registers, ports, interrupts etc. This book skips all such routine things. Here the focus is on programming microcontrollers, specifically MCS-51 family in C using Keil IDE. The book presents seventeen live case studies apart from the many basic programs organized around every on-chip resource: port, time/counter, interrupt , serial I/O and so on. Rather than introducing underpinning theory or reproducing lengthy data sheets, this "learning-through-doing" approach appeals to busy electronics designers. Mastering the basic modules and hands-on work with the projects enables readers to grasp the basic building blocks for most 8051 programs. Whether you are a student using the MCS-51 family of microcontrollers for project work or an embedded systems programmer, this book will kick-start your practical understanding of the most popular microcontroller. This book bridges the gap between microcontroller hardware experts and C programmers.

Blurb

The market is flooded with numbers of good books on Embedded Systems designed especially with the most popular MCS51 family. These books are traditional in nature i.e. they start with the routine architectural features of 8051, description of registers, ports, interrupts etc. Most of these things are already covered in the device data sheet and application notes. In this book all such routine things are skipped. The focus is on programming microcontrollers, to be specific MCS-51 family in ‘C’ using Keil IDE. Exploring C for Microcontrollers presents seventeen live case studies apart from the many basic programs organized around every on-chip resource like port, time/counter, interrupt , serial I/O etc. Rather than introducing the underpinning theory or reproducing lengthy data sheets, our approach is "learning-through-doing" and one that appeals to busy electronics designers. The ‘C’ codes given are well supported by easy to understand comments wherever required. Mastering the basic modules and hands on working with the projects will enable to grasp the basic building blocks for most 8051 programs. Whether you are a student using the MCS-51 family of microcontrollers for your project work or an embedded systems programmer, this is a book that will give you a kick-start in using and understanding the most popular microcontroller.

Authors through their interaction with the undergraduate, postgraduate students as well as industry professionals have found that such a book is a need of the microcontroller community interested in C programming. The book will bridge the gap between the microcontroller hardware experts and the C programmers.