Exploring C for Microcontrollers

Contents. Preface. Forward. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Microcontrollers Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. 1.1 Defining Microcontrollers. 1.2 Eagle's view : Microcontrollers and other competing devices. 1.3 Vignettes: Microcontrollers. 1.4. Microcontroller applications. 1.5. Growth Economics. 1.6. The major players in the microcontroller chip market. 1.7. Architectural trends. 1.8. Jump starting your first embedded system project. 1.9. Execution of Embedded System project: Is it a Gordian's knot? Chapter 2: Integrated Development Environment. 2.1 Getting familiar with the IDE. 2.2 Working with Keil IDE. 2.3 Development flow for the Keil IDE. Chapter 3: Art of C Programming for microcontrollers. 3.1 Familiarizing with your compiler capabilities. 3.2 Whether to use headers or not? 3.3 Basic C Program structure. 3.4 Differences from ANSI C. Chapter 4: Exploring the capabilities of on-chip resources Programming for I/O Ports, Interrupts and Timer/Counter. 4.1 Importance of ports: Playing with the ports. 4.2 Simple ideas for port expansion. 4.3 LED Interfacing. 4.4 Relevance of LEDs in today's Lightening Industry. 4.5 Different programs for LED interfacing. 4.6 More Projects on LED interfacing to microcontrollers. 4.7 DIP switch interfacing: Getting input to your Embedded System. 4.8 LCD Interfacing. 4.9 Interrupts in microcontrollers. Chapter 5: HyperTerminal based Control. 5.1 Hyperterminal. 5.2 Packet based control scheme. 5.3 Mechanism and lots of possibilities. 5.4 Application 1: Packet based interface for LED's. 5.5 Application 2: Packet based interface for stepper motor control. 5.6: Application 3: Home automation from PC Hyper-terminal. Chapter 6: Embedding microcontroller in routine applications. 6.1. Application 1: Podium Timer. 6.2 Application 2: Front desk notifier. 6.3Application 3: Cafeteria Food Alert/ microcontroller based menu card. 6.4 Application 4: Chimney Sentinel. 6.5 Application 5: Who's first timer. 6.6 Application 6: Counting Cars. 6.7 Application