The Designer's Guide to the Cortex-M Processor Family: A Tutorial Approach (Paperback)

The Designer's Guide to the Cortex-M Family is a tutorial-based book giving the key concepts required to develop programs in C with a Cortex M-based processor. The book begins with an overview of the Cortex-M family, giving architectural descriptions supported with practical examples, enabling the engineer to easily develop basic C programs to run on the Cortex-M0/M3 and M4. It then examines the more advanced features of the Cortex architecture, such as memory protection, operating modes and dual stack. Those used to 8- and 16-bit architectures will find advice on how to do RTOS development.

This book offers embedded systems engineers and students detailed coverage of:

• The key differences between the Cortex M0/M3 and M4
• The key features of the Cortex-M family
• How to make best use of the CoreSight debug system
• The Cortex-M operating modes and memory protection
• Advanced software techniques for Cortex-M microcontrollers

• Introduces the Cortex microcontroller software interface standard (CMSIS), a common framework for all Cortex M- based microcontrollers
• Introduction to the CMSIS DSP library for Cortex M3 and M4, discusses how to optimize DSP code for the Cortex M4, and how to build real-time DSP systems
• An evaluation tool chain IDE and debugger allows the accompanying example projects to be run in simulation on the PC or on low-cost hardware

《Cortex-M系列設計師指南》是一本以教學為基礎的書籍，介紹了使用C語言開發基於Cortex M處理器的程式所需的關鍵概念。本書首先概述了Cortex-M系列，並提供了實際示例支持的架構描述，使工程師能夠輕鬆開發運行在Cortex-M0/M3和M4上的基本C程式。接著，本書探討了Cortex架構的更高級特性，如內存保護、操作模式和雙堆棧。對於習慣於8位和16位架構的人來說，本書還提供了RTOS開發的建議。

本書為嵌入式系統工程師和學生提供了詳細的內容，包括：
- Cortex M0/M3和M4之間的主要差異
- Cortex-M系列的主要特性
- 如何充分利用CoreSight調試系統
- Cortex-M操作模式和內存保護
- Cortex-M微控制器的高級軟體技術

此外，本書還介紹了Cortex微控制器軟體介面標準（CMSIS），這是一個適用於所有基於Cortex M的微控制器的共同框架。同時還介紹了CMSIS DSP庫，用於Cortex M3和M4，並討論了如何優化Cortex M4的DSP程式碼以及如何構建實時DSP系統。書中還提供了評估工具鏈IDE和調試器，可以在PC上模擬運行附帶的示例項目，或在低成本硬體上運行。