32 bit microcontrollers from ATMEL with ARM7 core

Somehow I’ve been sticked to NXP LPC2xxx series microcontrollers and left other brands behind. There are many major manufacturers of ARM microcontrollers. One of them that is worth to pay attention is Atmel with its AT91SAM7 (Smart ARM7) series. SAM7 series of microcontrollers have built in Flash memory and data memory as well. Core is […]

New ARM7 Microcontrollers from NXP with LCD support

New microcontroller LPC2478 from NXP company is based on ARM7 core with built in Flash memory and have built in LCD interface. LPC2470 has no Flash memory.
LPC24 series have two high speed buses AHB to ensure independent work of peripherals like LCD, 10/100 Ethernet, USB and two channels of CAN. LPC24xx have reasonable low prices […]

Programming microcontrollers AduC70xx using boot-loader and ARMWSD utility

Firmware for AduC70xx ARM microcontrollers can be uploaded using built in boot-loader. To work with boot-loader Analog Devices offer to use small free program ARMWSD working under windows system. Program doesn’t require installation. ARMWSD communicates with AduC70xx via COM-port. Simple programming steps looks like this:

Connect target board to PC COM port;

Go to Configure->Parts and select […]

ARM Development Tools

http://www.arm.com/ Professional information about ARM microcontrollers;
http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm.html develops improvements to the GNU Tool-chain for ARM processors and provides regular, carefully tested, pre-compiled releases of the GNU Tool-chain;
http://www.EmbeddedArtists.com/ Ships pre-setup GCC build environment with all their Quick-Start Boards/Kits;
http://www.embedinfo.com/ Embest IDE for ARM, include Compiler,debugger,editor,project manager,flash programmer,JTAG Emulator, Low cost;
http://www.iar.com/ Embedded Workbench for ARM7,9,11 C/C++ compiler;
http://www.keil.com/ IDE,Debugger,Simulator which […]

Building embedded software using algorithm flow charts

Embedded software consists of various functions performing particular tasks. Before writing any ASM or C code it is good to draw algorithm flow chart. Flow charts are visual method of representing inner algorithm. It is easer analyze the algorithm and write the code according to diagram.
The main parts of diagram:

Fig 1. Simple series instructions

Fig 2. […]

Microcontroller eats too much of RAM

All you know that microcontrollers have limited amount RAM and EEPROM. For instance ATMega128 has 4-Kbytes of RAM, 4-Kbyte of EEPROM. This may seem quite enough for some applications, but more complicated routines require more of RAM. And there is no compiler that can do better optimization on usage of ram than programmer.
The main aim […]

Minimizing microcontroller code size

Reducing microcontroller code size isn’t ease task, but what if you want resulting code to fit your available memory…
Minimizing microcontroller code size can be done in two ways:
Firs is using compilers optimization feature by code size. This optimization is very dangerous. Your optimized code may not work as supposed to because compiler may eliminate some […]

Increase microcontroller code efficiency

C compilers are getting more and more advanced, but there is always a trade off made between speed and code size. Compiled code can be faster or smaller but not both. So you have to choose which part is more important speed or code size.
The Increase of microcontroller code efficiency can be done in many […]

32 bit microcontrollers from ATMEL with ARM7 core

Somehow I’ve been sticked to NXP LPC2xxx series microcontrollers and left other brands behind. There are many major manufacturers of ARM microcontrollers. One of them that is worth to pay attention is Atmel with its AT91SAM7 (Smart ARM7) series. SAM7 series of microcontrollers have built in Flash memory and data memory as well. Core is [...]

New ARM7 Microcontrollers from NXP with LCD support

New microcontroller LPC2478 from NXP company is based on ARM7 core with built in Flash memory and have built in LCD interface. LPC2470 has no Flash memory.
LPC24 series have two high speed buses AHB to ensure independent work of peripherals like LCD, 10/100 Ethernet, USB and two channels of CAN. LPC24xx have reasonable low prices [...]a

Programming microcontrollers AduC70xx using boot-loader and ARMWSD utility

Firmware for AduC70xx ARM microcontrollers can be uploaded using built in boot-loader. To work with boot-loader Analog Devices offer to use small free program ARMWSD working under windows system. Program doesn’t require installation. ARMWSD communicates with AduC70xx via COM-port. Simple programming steps looks like this:

Connect target board to PC COM port;

Programming microcontrollers AduC70xx using boot-loader and ARMWSD utility

Firmware for AduC70xx ARM microcontrollers can be uploaded using built in boot-loader. To work with boot-loader Analog system. Program doesn’t require installation. ARMWSD communicates with AduC70xx via COM-port. Simple programming steps looks like this:

Connect target board to PC COM port;

Using LPC2000 flash ISP utility to program LPC2148

As I earlier was writing about my home made ARM7-Base development board for LPC2148

It is time to write few words on how to use LPC2000 flash ISP utility.
LPC2000 flash utility is a software which is used to program LPC2000 series ARM microcontrollers:
LPC2101, LPC2102, LPC2103, LPC2104, LPC2106, LPC2106, LPC2114, LPC2114, LPC2119, LPC2124, LPC2129, LPC2131, LPC2132,

ARM Development Tools

http://www.arm.com/ Professional information about ARM microcontrollers;
http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm.html develops improvements to the GNU Tool-chain for ARM processors and provides regular, carefully tested, pre-compiled releases of the GNU Tool-chain;
http://www.EmbeddedArtists.com/ Ships pre-setup GCC build environment with all their Quick-Start Boards/Kits;
http://www.embedinfo.com/ Embest IDE for ARM, include Compiler,debugger,editor,project manager,flash programmer,JTAG Emulator, Low cost;
http://www.iar.com/ Embedded Workbench for ARM7,9,11 C/C++ compiler;
http://www.keil.com/ IDE,Debugger,Simulator which

Building embedded software using algorithm flow charts

Embedded software consists of various functions performing particular tasks. Before writing any ASM or C code it is good to draw algorithm flow chart. Flow charts are visual method of representing inner algorithm. It is easer analyze the algorithm and write the code according to diagram.
The main parts of diagram:

RTC example on ARM7 LPC2148 using WinARM

Finally got my LPC2148 RTC working on my development board. arm7 base development board for lpc2148

I am quite new to ARM microcontrollers, so I managed to make few tests using them by driving some peripherals and writing some test routines. First code I tried was simple LED blink program first lpc2148 arm7 microcontroller test [...]

Microcontroller eats too much of RAM

All you know that microcontrollers have limited amount RAM and EEPROM. For instance ATMega128 has 4-Kbytes of RAM, 4-Kbyte of EEPROM. This may seem quite enough for some applications, but more complicated routines require more of RAM. And there is no compiler that can do better optimization on usage of ram than programmer.

Minimizing microcontroller code size

Reducing microcontroller code size isn’t ease task, but what if you want resulting code to fit your available memory…
Minimizing microcontroller code size can be done in two ways:
Firs is using compilers optimization feature by code size. This optimization is very dangerous. Your optimized code may not work as supposed to because compiler may eliminate some

Increase microcontroller code efficiency

C compilers are getting more and more advanced, but there is always a trade off made between speed and code size. Compiled code can be faster or smaller but not both. So you have to choose which part is more important speed or code size.
The Increase of microcontroller code efficiency can be done in many

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This is simple led blinking routine using my development board. The compiler I used was WINARM. I like this compiler because its free and adaptation is easy while the same functionality is in WINAVR. This simple test just blinks pin 16 of port 0. This I used when I first got to know ARM microcontroller.
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