The Microprocessor : A Practical Introduction Using the Arm Cortex-M0 Processor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vasavada, Darshak S.

Contributor:

Sinha, S. K.

Series:

Wiley-Arm Professional Computing and Electrical Engineering Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microprocessors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

"The Microprocessor offers a supremely accessible and user-friendly introduction to microprocessor basics: instruction set, the exception model, system architecture and microcontroller programming. Explaining the working principles with simplified models, this first-level book builds the base for all onward courses at intermediate and advanced levels. Filled with exercises that can be executed on the free version of Keil Vision MDK without any hardware, the book explains the essential aspects of microprocessor architecture with simple programming examples in assembly and C. By blending conceptual knowledge with practical exercises, the book offers valuable insights that equip readers to engage with real-world applications in the fields of microprocessor architecture and embedded systems."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Exercises

Preface

About This Book

How to Read This Book

Acknowledgements

About the Companion Website

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Microprocessor System

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Processor

1.2.1 Word size

1.2.2 Clock speed

1.2.3 Instruction set

1.2.4 Number of cores

1.3 Memory

1.3.1 Content of memory

1.3.2 Address

1.3.3 Memory mapping

1.4 Memory Devices

1.4.1 ROM devices

1.4.2 RAM devices

1.4.3 On‐chip and off‐chip memory

1.4.4 Primary and secondary memory

1.5 Bus

1.5.1 Bus operation

1.5.2 Bus fault

1.6 IO Ports

1.7 Reset, Clock and Power Management

1.7.1 Reset

1.7.2 Clock

1.7.3 Power management

1.8 Overview of Arm Cortex‐M0 Processor

1.9 Summary

CHAPTER 2 Instruction Set Architecture

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Registers

2.3 Instruction Set

2.4 Structure of an Instruction

2.4.1 Instruction in assembly language

2.4.2 Instruction code

2.5 Data‐Processing Instructions

2.5.1 Structure of a data‐processing instruction

2.5.2 Arithmetic instructions

2.5.3 Logic instructions

2.6 Memory‐Access Instructions

2.6.1 Simple load and store

2.6.2 Load‐store with base and offset

2.6.3 Word length

2.6.4 Multiple load and store

2.6.5 Stack instructions

2.7 Program‐Control Instructions

2.7.1 Branch

2.7.2 Indirect branch

2.7.3 Conditional branch

2.7.4 Function call and return

2.8 Summary

CHAPTER 3 Program Execution

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Program

3.3 Inside the CPU

3.4 Fetch Unit

3.5 Decode Unit

3.5.1 Data‐processing instructions

3.5.2 Load‐store instructions

3.6 Execution Unit

3.6.1 Register bank

3.6.2 Arithmetic logic unit

3.6.3 Load‐store unit

3.7 Instruction Execution

3.8 Processor Pipeline

3.9 Summary.

CHAPTER 4 Assembly Programming

4.1 Statements

4.1.1 Comments

4.1.2 Spaces and case‐sensitivity

4.2 Labels

4.3 Sections

4.4 Text Section

4.5 Data Sections

4.5.1 Read‐only data

4.5.2 Initialized data

4.5.3 Uninitialized data

4.6 Summary

CHAPTER 5 Arithmetic Operations

5.1 Arithmetic Instructions

5.2 Unsigned Integers

5.3 Signed Integers

5.4 APSR Flags

5.4.1 Zero (Z) flag

5.4.2 Negative (N) flag

5.4.3 Overflow (V) flag

5.4.4 Carry (C) flag

5.5 Condition Codes

5.5.1 Unsigned comparison

5.5.2 Signed comparison

5.6 Summary

CHAPTER 6 Bit‐Level Operations

6.1 Boolean Instructions

6.1.1 AND operation

6.1.2 OR operation

6.1.3 Exclusive‐OR operation

6.1.4 NOT operation

6.2 Bit Manipulation

6.2.1 Setting bits

6.2.2 Clearing bits

6.2.3 Testing bit status

6.3 Shift Operations

6.3.1 Logical shift

6.3.2 Arithmetic shift

6.3.3 Rotate

6.4 Word‐Length Extension

6.4.1 Zero‐extension

6.4.2 Sign‐extension

6.4.3 Instructions for word‐length extension

6.5 Byte Ordering Instructions

6.6 Summary

CHAPTER 7 Load and Store Operations

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Alignment

7.2.1 Alignment in code access

7.2.2 Unaligned accesses

7.3 Endianness

7.3.1 Endianness in instruction codes

7.4 Basic Load and Store Operations

7.4.1 Bus fault

7.5 Data Types

7.5.1 Storing half‐words and bytes

7.5.2 Loading unsigned half‐words and bytes

7.5.3 Loading signed numbers

7.6 Offset Addressing

7.6.1 Immediate offset

7.6.2 Register offset

7.6.3 PC‐relative addressing

7.6.4 Multiple load‐store operations

7.7 Summary

CHAPTER 8 Branch and Subroutine

8.1 Program‐Control Instructions

8.2 Branch

8.3 Conditional Branch

8.4 Indirect Branch

8.5 Subroutines

8.6 Nested Subroutines

8.7 Summary.

CHAPTER 9 Stack Operations

9.1 Introduction

9.2 What Is a Stack?

9.3 Stack in Cortex‐M0

9.4 Stack Operations

9.5 Creating a Stack

9.6 Using the Stack

9.7 Local Variables

9.8 Summary

CHAPTER 10 Exceptions

10.1 Introduction

10.1.1 Reset

10.1.2 Faults

10.1.3 Supervisor call

10.1.4 Interrupts

10.2 Exception Model

10.3 Vector Table

10.4 Reset

10.5 Faults

10.6 Exception Stack Frame

10.7 Summary

CHAPTER 11 SysTick and Core Interrupts

11.1 Introduction

11.2 SysTick

11.3 SysTick Programming Model

11.3.1 SysTick Current Value Register

11.3.2 SysTick Reload Value Register

11.3.3 Control and Status Register

11.4 Programming SysTick

11.5 Using SysTick

11.6 Polling with SysTick

11.7 SysTick Interrupts

11.8 Interrupt Masking

11.9 Non‐maskable Interrupt (NMI)

11.10 Summary

CHAPTER 12 Introduction to C Programming

12.1 Programming Languages

12.2 Structure of a C Program

12.2.1 C source files

12.2.2 Object files

12.2.3 Library files

12.2.4 Header files

12.2.5 Compilation process

12.3 Functions

12.4 Data

12.5 Header Files

12.6 Overview of C Language

12.6.1 Data‐related keywords (20)

12.6.2 Function‐related keywords (12)

12.6.3 Study map

12.7 Summary

CHAPTER 13 Basic Data Types

13.1 Characters and Strings

13.2 Integers

13.2.1 Arithmetic operations

13.2.2 Bit‐level operations

13.2.3 Sign and word‐length

13.3 Floating‐Point Numbers

13.4 Floating‐Point Operations

13.5 Type‐Casting

13.6 Summary

CHAPTER 14 Functions

14.1 Function Calls

14.2 Arguments

14.3 Local Variables

14.4 Conditional Execution

14.5 Selection

14.6 Loops

14.6.1 for loop

14.6.2 while loop

14.6.3 do‐while loop

14.6.4 break and continue

14.6.5 goto statement

14.7 Summary.

CHAPTER 15 Extended Data Types

15.1 Arrays

15.2 Structures

15.3 Pointers

15.4 Arrays and Pointers

15.5 Pointer to a Structure

15.6 Pointer Arithmetic

15.7 Uninitialized Pointers

15.8 Summary

CHAPTER 16 Compilation Process

16.1 Overview of the Compilation Process

16.1.1 Preprocessing

16.1.2 Compilation

16.1.3 Assembly

16.1.4 Linking

16.2 Preprocessing

16.3 Compilation

16.3.1 C statements

16.3.2 Translation process

16.4 Assembler

16.4.1 Translation

16.4.2 Relative address assignment

16.5 Linker

16.5.1 Section placement

16.5.2 Absolute address assignment

16.5.3 Symbol resolution

16.6 Executable Program

16.7 Summary

CHAPTER 17 Microcontroller

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Block Diagram

17.2.1 Cortex‐M0

17.2.2 Bus

17.2.3 Memory

17.2.4 Reset, clock and power management

17.2.5 Peripheral (IO) ports

17.3 Pin Diagram

17.4 Reset, Clock and Power Management

17.4.1 Reset control unit

17.4.2 Clock control unit

17.4.3 Power management

17.4.4 API functions

17.5 Peripheral Interrupts

17.5.1 Interrupts in AM0

17.5.2 Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)

17.5.3 Interrupt handling

17.6 Peripheral Registers

17.6.1 Register definition

17.6.2 Bit‐level operations

17.7 Peripheral API

17.7.1 System API

17.7.2 Digital IO

17.7.3 Timer

17.7.4 Analog

17.7.5 UART

17.7.6 Interrupts

17.8 Summary

CHAPTER 18 IO Programming

18.1 IO Devices

18.2 GPIO

18.2.1 Registers

18.2.2 Peripheral API

18.2.3 Implementation

18.3 Timer

18.3.1 Registers

18.3.2 Peripheral API

18.3.3 Implementation

18.4 ADC

18.4.1 Registers

18.4.2 Peripheral API

18.4.3 Implementation

18.5 DAC

18.5.1 Registers

18.5.2 Peripheral API

18.5.3 Implementation

18.6 UART

18.6.1 Registers.

18.6.2 Peripheral API

18.6.3 Implementation

18.7 Interrupts

18.7.1 Registers

18.7.2 Peripheral API

18.7.3 Implementation

18.8 Summary

CHAPTER 19 Microprocessor Applications

19.1 LED Brightness Controller

19.1.1 Hardware configuration

19.1.2 Code

19.2 Ambient Light Sensor

19.2.1 Hardware configuration

19.2.2 Code

19.3 Energy‐Efficient Coding

19.4 Temperature Monitoring

19.4.1 Hardware configuration

19.4.2 Code

19.5 Motor Speed Control

19.5.1 Rotary encoder

19.5.2 Speed control algorithm

19.5.3 Code

19.5.4 Practical considerations

19.6 Summary

APPENDIX A Programming Environment

A.1 Introduction

A.2 Keil MDK

A.2.1 Tool‐Chain

A.2.2 Target Processor

A.2.3 Workflow for the Exercises

A.3 Assembly Programming Setup

A.4 Writing and Building Assembly Programs

A.5 Debugging an Assembly Program

A.5.1 Register Window

A.5.2 Source Window

A.5.3 Disassembly Window

A.5.4 Memory Window

A.6 C Programming Setup

A.7 Writing and Building C Program

A.8 Debugging A C Program

A.8.1 Source Window

A.8.2 Disassembly Window

A.8.3 Watch Window

A.9 Debugger

A.9.1 Loading the Program

A.9.2 Working with the Data

A.9.3 Execution Control

A.9.4 Breakpoints and Watchpoints

APPENDIX B Advanced Topics

B.1 System‐Control Instructions

B.1.1 Processor‐Control Instructions

B.1.2 Processor‐Synchronization Instructions

B.2 OS Support

B.2.1 Processor Modes

B.2.2 Privileges

B.2.3 Supervisor Call (SVCall)

B.2.4 PendSV

B.2.5 Stacks

APPENDIX C Startup Code

C.1 OS‐Less System

C.1.1 Vector Table

C.1.2 Exception Handlers

C.1.3 Startup Code

C.1.4 Main Code

C.1.5 Read‐Only Data

C.1.6 Read‐Write Data

C.1.7 Heap

C.1.8 Stack

C.2 Startup Code

C.3 Linker Script File

APPENDIX D AM0 Header Files.

D.1 Register Header File.

Notes:

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First place of publication from the publisher's website.

ISBN:

1-394-24531-9

1-394-24532-7

OCLC:

1521500675