July 2025
Beginner
528 pages
13h 18m
English
Content preview from The Microprocessor
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
About This Book
The book begins with an introduction that provides an overview of different categories of microprocessors and introduces Cortex-M processors.
Chapter 1 provides the hardware basics: the processor, memory and bus system, input/output (IO) ports and interrupts, and reset, clock and power management.
The following two chapters present the microprocessor architecture concepts. Chapter 2 describes the instruction-set architecture for Cortex-M0 processor, and chapter 3 explains how these instructions get executed inside a typical RISC processor.
Chapter 4 provides an introduction to assembly programming. Chapters 5–9 get into the details of various types of operations carried out by the processor: arithmetic and logic operations, load-store operations, program control and stack operations.
Chapter 10 introduces the exception model and explains the vector table, exception handling and reset processing. Chapter 11 describes SysTick timer and core interrupts.
Chapter 12 introduces C programming and describes the structure of a C program. Chapters 13, 14 and 15 demonstrate how various C elements get implemented and executed on the processor. Chapter 16 explains the compilation process, from source files to the binary program loaded in the processor's memory.
Chapter 17 introduces the microcontroller using an abstract implementation, simplified to explain the basic structure. Chapter 18 explains IO programming, and chapter 19 illustrates a few examples of real-world applications ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.