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UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter)
Objective The objective of this lesson is to understand UART, and use two boards and setup UART ...
PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)
Objective To learn about the use of PWM signals, their related parameters, and how to set up an ...
GPIO
Objective To be able to General Purpose Input Output (GPIO), to generate digital output signals ...
Lab Assignment: Interrupt + Lookup Tables + Binary Semaphores
Objective To learn how to create a single dynamic user defined interrupt service routine callbac...
ADC (Analog to Digital Converter)
Objective To learn about the use of ADCs, their different types, their related parameters, and h...
Pin Selection and Pin Mode
Objective Know how to select a specific functionality of a given LPC17xx pin. Know how to select...
Binary Semaphores
Semaphores are used to signal/synchronize tasks as well as protect resources. A binary semapho...
Lab Assignment: GPIO
Objective To grow your skills in the following: Manipulating a microcontroller's registers in ...
Bitmasking
Bitmasking Tutorial Bit-masking is a technique to selectively modify individual bits without aff...
Lab Assignment: FreeRTOS Tasks
Objective To give you some experience in: Loading firmware onto the SJOne board Using FreeRTO...
EventGroups
Event group APIs can be used to monitor a set of tasks. A software watchdog in an embedded system...
Watchdogs
Watchdog is a timer which can continuously check if there is any malfunction in the system operat...
LPC17xx Memory Map
What is a Memory Map A memory map is a layout of how the memory maps to some set of information....
External Components
ADC Ultrasonic Proximity Sensor #include “adc0.h” int main(void) { int reading = 0;...
Block Diagrams
Board Block Diagrams The block diagrams below show the connectivity to various different chips o...
Adding Additional Source Code
C++ File Adding C++ code is simple. Simply add your *.hpp and *.cpp files and you are good to go...
Command Line Interface
Add a Terminal Command /* At terminal.cpp, add the following code at the taskEntry() function */...
FreeRTOS
FreeRTOS void vTaskCode( void * pvParameters ) { /* Grab Parameter */ uint32_t c = (u...