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

useful for newbies who have no embedded programming experience and who just wanna quickly get into embedded world. This is right book which teach you hand by hand on Keil IDE. I am using stm32f4, and this book helps a lot.

I own an advanced engineering design company and we have been using ARM controllers for the past several years. I believe the Cortex architecture has started a great trend toward increasing on-chip features, improving reliability while reducing development costs. However, the new SOC's are very complex so many of the current books on the market are basically regurgitated reference manuals presented in a dry technical manner. I myself, like to learn from examples with clear explanations on why certain approaches are successful in complex systems design.This text is a great beginners guide, however, it is also an excellent reference for seasoned developers wanting to learn the benefits of the ARM Cortex M architecture. The author gives a great overview of the core architecture along with specific examples to the CMSIS interface standard. Although the Keil/ARM CMSIS online documentation good for experienced programmers, the author provides real-world application examples that gives one thought on how to approach existing solutions. In addition, he also provides a plethora of examples to download so that one can follow the examples presented in the material.I used to program embedded systems many years ago, so I decided assist in a recent project to gauge how technology has matured over the years. This manual has helped me catch-up quickly relative to the current online documentation, and I believe it's because the book provides good examples with clear and concise presentation. Overall I like the authors approach and highly recommend this book for hardware and system developers.I hope this helps.David PaulValidus Technologies

I bought the ebook version and began working through the examples, which I found to be good. However, I was struggling to set aside time to cover the material and so I booked myself onto the two-day training course run by Trevor (the author) at Hitex UK. The training covers all the material in the book with day two devoted to the RTX RTOS and day one to the rest of the material. I found this a great help and am now confidently embarking on my first commercial ARM based project. The training is very reasonably priced and you come away with a printed paperback copy of the book, plus a memory stick with all the examples and the presentation material and a time-limited full evaluation copy of Meil MDK-ARM IDE. Back to the book: the text guides you through the Cortex-M features by tutorial examples that can be run and debugged in the free Keil MDK-ARM IDE. The material progresses logically and works its way towards using the free RTX RTOS. Much of the material is generic to all Cortex-M MCUs, but there is a chapter devoted to DSP on the Cortex-M4 series. Most of the examples can be run and debugged in the simulator included with the IDE, including those for the RTOS and the DSP. Finally, there's a chapter on using a ULINK debugger to debug on the hardware itself via the CoreSight debug connection. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to get started fast using the Cortex-M microcontrollers.

This is an excellent guide for any one looking to write code for a Cortex M processor for an embedded application.This book gives detailed explanation about the CPU and its various features immediately followed by the actual code that is used to exercise those features.No need to read multiple technical distinct manuals for the HW and SW.Very practical how to information and software examples.Recommended for beginners, students and experts.

Just a quick note: I received the book today, and thought I'd point out to anyone who has looked through the Kindle "preview", which has all the nice color graphics. Don't expect that in the $58 printed edition, all the graphics are in black & white.