Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture

Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture is a first dive into understanding embedded architectures and writing software to manipulate this hardware. You will gain experience writing low-level firmware to directly interface hardware with highly efficient, readable and portable design practices. We will now transition from the Host Linux Machine where we built and ran code in a simulated environment to an Integrated Development Environment where you will build and install code directly on your ARM Cortex-M4 Microcontroller. Course assignments include writing firmware to interact and configure both the underlying ARM architecture and the MSP432 microcontroller platform. The course concludes with a project where you will develop a circular buffer data structure. In this course you will need the Texas Instruments LaunchPad with the MSP432 microcontroller in order to complete the assignments. Later courses of the Specialization will continue to use this hardware tool to develop even more exciting firmware.

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Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Interfacing C-Programs with ARM Core Microcontrollers
Week 2
Manipulating Memory
Week 3
Designing Embedded Data Structures

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Reviews

It was really helpful in understanding my arm processor very well.

This course makes my basic embedded knowledge very strong .This course will definitely helps me pursue my goal.

you need to learn a lot more about embedded system .It includes quiz and a Final Assesment in it.

This is one of the most helpful and relevant courses out there for embedded programming. Awesome stuff.