Notes

Intro to Embedded

• #1 - Welcome
• #2 - Care and feeding instructions
• #3 - Development Environment
• Suggested tutorial for the command line
• Videos on setting up a VM:
  Installing VMWare Player and Debian VM
  Configuring a VMWare Player's virtual machine

Programming in C

• #4 - Makefiles and Editors
• #5 - C programming
  • YouTube videos on C programming (by Brian)
    C Basics: Basics, functions, prototypes, and constants
    C Modules: Multiple files in a project, including "private" functions (static)

Linux Programming

• #6.1 - Threads and Processes
• #6.2 - Synchronization
  • Synchronization Part 1 - Background (pre-recorded, 18 min)
  • Synchronization Part 2 - Semaphores(pre-recorded, 16 min)
  • Synchronization Part 3 - Classic problems (pre-recorded, 10 min)
• #6.3 - Linux programming or in colour
  • Linux programming examples from slides
  • YouTube videos on Linux programming (by Dr. Brian)
    • Processes (Fork & Exec)
      fork(): Create a process
      exec(): Replace current program with another
      fork() and exec()
    • Threads (pthreads)
      #1-Introduction: Create a single thread
      #2-Multiple threads: Passing data in/out using a struct with numerous threads
      #3-Dynamic memory: Passing data in/out of thread function using dynamically allocated memory
    • Synchronization
      Synchronization using mutex

Debugging

• #8 - Debugging w/ GDB & VS Code or in color
  • Debugging guide covers how use GDB and VS Code for graphical debugging
  • Examples code for debugging
  • Videos
    GDB Cross Debugging
    GDB Cross Debugging seg faults
    Graphical cross debugging with Eclipse
    Dynamic memory debugging using valgrind tool

A2D, PWL & Noise

• #7 - Voltage, A2D, Piecewise linear, & Noise or in color
  • Example code for Fork-Pipe-Socket

Profiling & Linux File System

• #8.5 - Profiling or in color
  • Examples code for mtrace and profiling
• #9 - Linux file system or in color

Bit Twiddle

• #13 - Bit Twiddling or in color
  • Book appendix describing Bitwise operations (PDF)

systemd, & Watchdog

• #14 - systemd and Watchdog or in color
  • Sample systemd config file and watchdog example

PCM Audio - As3

• #16 - Code Review or in colour

Real-time

• #17 - Real-time or in colour