January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
10h 35m
English
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Reading the datasheet
Especially for MCUs, the datasheet gives us a lot of valuable information about how the hardware works, such as how to configure the internal system clock, how individual peripherals work, and available registers and their meaning.
Even if you use an existing board instead of a custom hardware system, it pays to understand the underlying hardware, even if it's from a cursory read of the MCU or SoC datasheet.