Microcontroller Embedded C Programming: Absolute Beginners

<div>==&gt; This should be your very first course to dive into the exciting world of "Embedded Systems." &lt;==</div><div><br></div><div>This is our new course mainly targeted for absolute beginners to learn microcontroller programming using the 'C ' programming language.</div><div><br></div><div>Please note that "Embedded C" is NOT a separate programming language. 'Embedded C' is rather embedded target aware programming using traditional 'C' programming language.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the critical microcontroller-related 'C' concepts such as</div><div><br></div><div>Importance of bitwise operators</div><div><br></div><div>Usage of bit manipulation techniques to program MCU peripheral registers</div><div><br></div><div>accessing memory-mapped registers using pointers</div><div><br></div><div>pointers and casting</div><div><br></div><div>structures, bitfields, unions, and bit extraction techniques</div><div><br></div><div>representing hardware registers details and configuring them using 'C' structure definitions</div><div><br></div><div>Usage of const and volatile type qualifiers</div><div><br></div><div>Interpret complex variable definitions involving the combination of const and volatile</div><div><br></div><div>The precise usage of const pointers, const data, volatile const, with pointer and non-pointer variables</div><div><br></div><div>The behavior of the code during compiler optimization and solution using volatile</div><div><br></div><div>Functions and friends</div><div><br></div><div>Data types, variables definitions, storage class specifiers and much more</div><div><br></div><div>Loops: while, for, do. while</div><div><br></div><div>MCU internal architecture and programming peripherals</div><div><br></div><div>Interfacing projects</div><div><br></div><div>All these concepts are discussed with clear examples and writing code for the target embedded board.</div><div><br></div><div>According to 2017 embedded dot com survey still 'C' is one of the most widely used programming languages&nbsp; for embedded code development</div><div><br></div><div>This course gives particular emphasis to learn 'C' programming concepts practically for microcontroller use cases.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hardware:</div><div><br></div><div>1. You need ARM Cortex M4 based STM32F407 DISCOVERY board from ST if you want to try out code on the target.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Additional interfacing components may be required for interfacing projects</div><div><br></div><div>3. You can also be able to follow this course if you have any other boards from ST such as Nucleo or evaluation.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Software:</div><div><br></div><div>1. In this course, Eclipse-based STM32CubeIDE is used as the&nbsp; IDE ( works on Windows/Linux/Mac) (FREE)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Learning order of FastBit Embedded Brain Academy Courses,</div><div><br></div><div>If you are a beginner in the field of embedded systems, then you can take our courses in the below-mentioned order.</div><div>This is just a recommendation from the instructor for beginners.</div><div><br></div><div>1) Microcontroller Embedded C Programming: absolute beginners(Embedded C)</div><div><br></div><div>2) Embedded Systems Programming on ARM Cortex-M3/M4 Processor(ARM Cortex M4 Processor specific)</div><div><br></div><div>3) Mastering Microcontroller with Embedded Driver Development(MCU1)</div><div><br></div><div>4) Mastering Microcontroller: TIMERS, PWM, CAN, RTC,LOW POWER(MCU2)</div><div><br></div><div>5) Mastering Microcontroller: STM32-LTDC, LCD-TFT, LVGL(MCU3)</div><div><br></div><div>6) Embedded System Design using UML State Machines(State machine)</div><div><br></div><div>7) Mastering RTOS: Hands-on FreeRTOS and STM32Fx with Debugging(RTOS)</div><div><br></div><div>8) ARM Cortex M Microcontroller DMA Programming Demystified(DMA)</div><div><br></div><div>9) STM32Fx Microcontroller Custom Bootloader Development(Bootloader)</div><div><br></div><div>10) Embedded Linux Step by Step using Beaglebone Black(Linux)</div><div><br></div><div>11) Linux device driver programming using Beaglebone Black(LDD1)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Other programming courses</div><div><br></div><div>1) Master The Rust Programming Language : Beginner To Advanced</div>

What you'll learn:

• 'C' programming from scratch
• Data types,variables, declarations,
• Importance of Bit-Wise operators in "Embedded" programming
• Bit manipulation techniques using bit-wise operators and examples
• Bit extraction and working with memory mapped peripheral registers
• Other operators of 'C' (arithmatic, logical, relation, assignment )
• Functions in 'C'
• Implicit and explicit casting and its importance
• Pointers and casting
• Pointers arithmetic and importance of pointer datatypes
• Accessing memory mapped peripheral registers using pointers
• Structures and unions
• Importance of structures in peripheral register access
• Structure and bit fields
• Configuring peripheral register addresses using bit fields
• Structures and pointers
• interfacing LEDs, Keypad
• Const and volatile type qualifiers
• const data, const pointer, cont volatile explanation with examples
• Importance of const
• importance of volatile during compiler optimization