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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

Generating a sine wave


Sinusoidal signals are commonly used in signal processing applications and generating these waveforms provides an interesting project that is the focus of this recipe. A common approach is a direct method that stores the sinusoidal waveform samples in a look-up-table (LUT). This recipe is called dacSinusoid_c5v0.

Getting ready

First, we need to calculate the (12-bit) DAC values that will be stored in the LUT. We'll attempt to generate a 50 Hz sinusoidal signal and use a spreadsheet (for example, Microsoft Excel) to calculate the following values:

Smpl. No

Theta Rads

floor((sin(theta)+1)*4095/2)

0

0

2047

1

0.31415927

2680

2

0.62831853

3250

3

0.9424778

3703

4

1.25663706

3994

5

1.57079633

4095

6

1.88495559

3994

7

2.19911486

3703

8

2.51327412

3250

9

2.82743339

2680

10

3.14159265

2047

11

3.45575192

1414

12

3.76991118

844

13

4.08407045

391

14

4.39822972

100

15

4.71238898

0

16

5.02654825

100

17

5.34070751

391

18

5.65486678...