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Summary¶

The mbed platform is becoming widely used in academic circles for teaching embedded systems at undergraduate level, and within companies where often there is a need to self-teach or be trained in new microcontroller skills. The mbed allows quick engagement in advanced topics, and to facilitate this further we are putting together a set of course notes to help academic and workshop tutors teach, using mbed as the platform.

Course Outline¶

The content of the course notes is outlined below. We have chosen the topics that allow a quick introduction to the most commonly used technologies and interfaces while providing the background design and programming skills to allow students to learn effectively.

The mbed course notes content and structure is as follows:

Digital input and output
Analog input and output
Pulse width modulation
Modular design and programming
Parallel data and communication
Serial communication with I2C
Serial communication with SPI
Timers and interrupts
Memory and data management

There are a number of topics which have been chosen to naturally support an undergraduate course, or a workshop run over a few days. In all cases examples and exercises are provided to support hands on learning. We also hope the slides stand as a useful self learning programme for anyone new to the mbed.

"We" are Rob Toulson (Anglia Ruskin University) and Tim Wilmshurst (University of Derby), working with the mbed team. We are also the authors of the recently published textbook "Fast and Effective Embedded Systems Design: Applying the ARM mbed".

Slides can be accessed by selcecting the cover images below, or you can download the entire course in .pptx and .pdf format here.

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