Embedded systems design with the Atmel AVR microcontroller. Part I
This textbook provides practicing scientists and engineers an advanced treatment of the Atmel AVR microcontroller. This book is intended as a follow on to a previously published book, titled "Atmel AVR Microcontroller Primer: Programming and Interfacing." Some of the content from this earl...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2010.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on digital circuits and systems (Online),
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Embedded systems design
- What is an embedded system
- Embedded system design process
- Problem description
- Background research
- Pre-design
- Design
- Implement prototype
- Preliminary testing
- Complete and accurate documentation
- Example: kinesiology and health laboratory instrumentation
- Summary
- Chapter problems
- References
- 2. Atmel AVR architecture overview
- ATmega164 architecture overview
- Reduced instruction set computer, RISC
- Assembly language instruction set
- C operator size
- Bit twiddling
- ATmega164 architecture overview
- Nonvolatile and data memories
- In-system programmable flash EEPROM
- Byte-addressable EEPROM
- Accessing byte-addressable EEPROM example
- Static random access memory (SRAM)
- Programmable lock bits
- Port system
- Peripheral features, internal subsystems
- Time base
- Timing subsystem
- Pulsewidth modulation channels
- Serial communications
- Analog to digital converter, ADC
- Analog comparator
- Interrupts
- Physical and operating parameters
- Packaging
- Power consumption
- Speed grades
- Choosing a microcontroller
- Application: ATmega164 Testbench
- Hardware configuration
- Software configuration
- Programming the ATmega164
- Programming procedure
- In-system programming (ISP)
- Software portability
- Summary
- Chapter problems
- References.
- 3. Serial communication subsystem
- Serial communications
- ASCII
- Serial USART
- System overview
- System operation and programming
- Full duplex USART-based microcontroller link
- USART-based radio frequency microcontroller link
- USART-to-PC
- USART serial liquid crystal display
- Serial peripheral interface, SPI
- Extending the Atmel AVR features via the SPI
- Networked microcontrollers
- Two-wire serial interface
- Controller area network (CAN)
- Zigbee wireless IEEE 802.15.4 interface
- Summary
- Chapter problems
- References
- 4. Analog to digital conversion (ADC)
- Sampling, quantization and encoding
- Resolution and data rate
- Analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) process
- Transducer interface design (TID) circuit
- Operational amplifiers
- ADC conversion technologies
- Successive-approximation
- The Atmel ATmega164 ADC system
- Block diagram
- Registers
- Programming the ADC
- Examples
- ADC rain gage indicator
- ADC rain gage indicator with SPI
- Transmitting ADC values via the USART or SPI
- One-bit ADC, threshold detector
- Digital-to-analog conversion (DAC)
- Octal channel, 8-bit DAC via the SPI
- Summary
- Chapter problems
- References
- 5. Interrupt subsystem
- Interrupt theory
- ATmega164 interrupt system
- Programming an interrupt system
- Application
- External interrupts
- Internal interrupt
- Foreground and background processing
- Interrupt examples
- Real time clock
- Interrupt driven USART
- Summary
- Chapter problems
- References
- A. ATmega164 register set
- B. ATmega164 header file
- Author's biography
- Index.