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ARM?? Cortex?? M4 Cookbook

By : Dr. Mark Fisher
Book Image

ARM?? Cortex?? M4 Cookbook

By: Dr. Mark Fisher

Overview of this book

Embedded microcontrollers are at the core of many everyday electronic devices. Electronic automotive systems rely on these devices for engine management, anti-lock brakes, in car entertainment, automatic transmission, active suspension, satellite navigation, etc. The so-called internet of things drives the market for such technology, so much so that embedded cores now represent 90% of all processor’s sold. The ARM Cortex-M4 is one of the most powerful microcontrollers on the market and includes a floating point unit (FPU) which enables it to address applications. The ARM Cortex-M4 Microcontroller Cookbook provides a practical introduction to programming an embedded microcontroller architecture. This book attempts to address this through a series of recipes that develop embedded applications targeting the ARM-Cortex M4 device family. The recipes in this book have all been tested using the Keil MCBSTM32F400 board. This board includes a small graphic LCD touchscreen (320x240 pixels) that can be used to create a variety of 2D gaming applications. These motivate a younger audience and are used throughout the book to illustrate particular hardware peripherals and software concepts. C language is used predominantly throughout but one chapter is devoted to recipes involving assembly language. Programs are mostly written using ARM’s free microcontroller development kit (MDK) but for those looking for open source development environments the book also shows how to configure the ARM-GNU toolchain. Some of the recipes described in the book are the basis for laboratories and assignments undertaken by undergraduates.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
ARM Cortex M4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Debugging programs that use CMSIS-RTOS


Using Keil's ULINK, we can gather and display general information about system resources while debugging our program.

How to do it…

  1. Clone the RTXBlinky project that we described earlier in this chapter.

  2. Select ProjectOptions. Under the Debug tab, select Settings.

  3. In the Cortex-M Target Driver Setup dialog, use the Debug tab to select the Serial Wire (SW) Communications protocol:

  4. Still in the Cortex-M Target Driver Setup dialog, use the Trace tab to set the Core Clock frequency (168.0 MHz) and check Trace Enable:

  5. Download and run the program.

  6. Debug the program by selecting Debug Start/Stop Debug Session (Ctrl+F5).

  7. Select DebugRun (F5) to run the program.

  8. Select DebugOS SupportSystem and Thread Viewer.

    Tip

    The cells that are highlighted in the previous screenshot are updated in real time as the program is running.

  9. Select DebugOS SupportEvent Viewer. The cells that are highlighted in the following screenshot are updated in real time as the program...