July 2025
Beginner
528 pages
13h 18m
English
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If you are already familiar with microprocessor basics and are particularly interested in the architecture for Cortex-M0 processor, the introduction and chapters 2 and 10 will provide a comprehensive overview. The introduction provides a high-level overview of Arm Cortex processors, while chapter 2 covers Cortex-M0 instruction-set architecture and chapter 11 explains the core exception model. Additionally, chapter 11 describes SysTick timer and core interrupt handling.
If this is your first exposure to a microprocessor system, chapter 1 will introduce you to the necessary hardware basics. Following this, chapters 2, 3 and 10 explain the core architectural concepts. Chapters 4–9 will take you deeper into Cortex-M0 instruction set through hands-on programming, and chapters 10 and 11 will introduce you to system-level programming. Collectively, chapters 1–11 provide a strong foundation for the architectural concepts. Appendix A will get you started with assembly programming, and appendix B introduces advanced topics from Cortex-M0 processor for you to continue explorations beyond this book.
Chapters 12–16 are optional. These chapters introduce C programming constructs and show how they are implemented on Cortex-M0 processor. You may glance through them first, and then revisit them as you get deeper into embedded C programming. Appendix C explains the startup code, completing the overall picture of program execution.
Chapters 17–19 provide an introduction ...
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