Introduction¶

mbed is the easiest and fastest way to prototype with ARM microcontrollers. To find out why, take the Tour.

Getting started with mbed¶

• Setup guide - Getting signed up with an mbed account
• Downloading a program - Running a program binary on your mbed microcontroller for the first time
• Creating a program - Creating your own program with the mbed compiler

The mbed library reference¶

• DigitalOut, DigitalIn, DigitalInOut - Digital I/O
• BusIn, BusOut, BusInOut
• InterruptIn
• AnalogIn, AnalogOut
• PwmOut
• Serial
• SPI, I2C, CAN
• Ethernet
• Timer, Timeout, Ticker, RTC

• LocalFileSystem - Access to the mbed USB Disk using fopen, fprintf, fread, etc

Working with mbed¶

• Debugging - A guide to help find and solve errors and bugs in your programs
• Help - The best way to get help, and how to help others
• PC serial - Communicate between an mbed Microcontroller and a PC
• Windows serial configuration - Windows serial driver installation
• Terminals - Guide to using terminal applications

About the microcontroller hardware¶

• mbed NXP LPC1768 (a.k.a the current Cortex-M3 mbed Microcontroller)
• mbed NXP LPC2368 (a.k.a the original ARM7 board used during the mbed beta)
• Firmware - Firmware updates for the mbed Microcontroller

Implementation details¶

• Memory Model