Modern Embedded Systems Programming Course

#0 Modern Embedded Systems Programming: Getting Started

#1 How computers count?

#2 How to change the flow of control through your code

#3 Variables and Pointers

#4 How to control the world outside?

#5 Preprocessor and the "volatile" keyword in C

#6 Bit-wise operators in C

#7 Arrays and Pointer Arithmetic

#8 Functions in C and the call stack

#9 Modules, Recursion, ARM Application Procedure Call Standard (AAPCS)

#10 Stack Overflow and Other Pitfalls of Functions

#11 Standard integers (stdint.h) and mixing integer types

#12 Structures in C and Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS)

#13 Startup Code Part-1: What is startup code and how the CPU gets from reset to main?

#14 Startup Code Part-2: Replacing the vector-table, embedded software build process

#15 Startup Code Part-3: Vector table initialization, exception handlers, interrupt handlers

#16 Interrupts Part-1: What are interrupts, and how they work

#17 interrupts Part-2: How most CPUs (e.g. MSP430) handle interrupts?

#18 interrupts Part-3: How interrupts work on ARM Cortex-M?

#19 GNU-ARM Toolchain and Eclipse IDE

#20 Race Conditions: What are they and how to avoid them?

#21 Foreground-Background Architecture ("Superloop")

#22 RTOS Part-1: What is a Real-Time Operating System?

#23 RTOS Part-2: Automating the context switch

#24 RTOS Part-3: Automating the scheduling with round-robin policy

#25 RTOS Part-4: Efficient blocking of threads

#26 RTOS Part-5: What is "real-time"? Preemptive, priority-based scheduling

#27 RTOS Part-6: Synchronization and communication among concurrent threads

#28 RTOS Part-7: Mutual exclusion mechanisms

#29 OOP Part-1: Encapsulation (classes) in C and C++

#30 OOP Part-2: Inheritance in C and C++

#31 OOP Part-3: Polymorphism in C++

#32 OOP Part-4: Polymorphism in C

#33 Event-Driven Programming Part-1: GUI example, events, event-loop, run-to-completion, no-blocking

#34 Event-Driven Programming Part-2: Best practices for concurrency & Active Object pattern

#35 State Machines Part-1: What is a state machine?

#36 State Machines Part-2: Guard conditions

#37 State Machines Part-3: Input-Driven State Machines

#38 State Machines Part-4: State Tables and Entry/Exit Actions

#39 State Machines Part-5: Optimal Implementation in C

#40 State Machines Part-6: What is a Hierarchical State Machine?

#41 State Machines Part-7:Automatic Code Generation

#42 State Machines Part-8: Semantics of Hierarchical State Machines

#43 Active Objects in Real-Time Part-1: Run-to-Completion and RMS/RMA

#44 Active Objects in Real-Time Part-2: Mutable Events

#45 Software Tracing with printf

#46 Software Tracing with Binary Protocols

#47 Assertions and Design by Contract, Part-1

#48 Assertions and Design by Contract, Part-2

#49 Embedded Unit Testing

#50 To block or NOT to block, that is the question! Blocking as technical debt...

#51 Traceable Documentation with Doxygen & Spexygen

#52 Using low-power sleep modes in the "superloop" architecture

#53 Priority-based scheduler for the "superloop" architecture

#54 Non-preemptive QV Kernel for Active Objects

#55 Preemptive QK Kernel for Active Objects

#56 Zephyr RTOS for Active Objects

Linux (POSIX) for Active Objects