June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
645 pages
18h 18m
English
Joe Hamman Director, Platform Software Solutions at Integrated Computer Solutions, Waltham, MA, United States
This chapter will present the details and techniques needed to create, build, and deploy a basic, embedded runtime image. We will first review the technical details of a popular, low-cost embedded reference platform, focusing on system initialization. We will walk through the installation of the software development kit for the board along with the steps needed to build, download, and run a program that exercises digital I/O by toggling an LED. We will then build and deploy a simple runtime image that prints characters using the serial port (UART) in polled I/O mode. Following an overview of hardware ...