Notes

Lectures are being recorded; see side-bar for link.

Intro to Embedded

• #1 - Welcome

• #2 - Care and feeding instructions or in B/W

• #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

Building Software & C

• #4 - Building software (Make and CMake)

  • Make and CMake tutorials
    • Makefile tutorial - Great introduction to Makefiles
    • How to Use CMake,
    • Introduction to CMake by Example
    • CMake Tutorial.
• #5 - C programming or In B/W
  • Optional videos on C programming (in Eclipse) by Br. Brian; useful if new to C:
    C Basics: Basics, functions, prototypes, and constants
    C Modules: Multiple files in a project, including "private" functions (static)
    Eclipse basics: Importing an existing makefile program

Linux Programming

• #6.1 - Operating System Processes
• #6.2 - Operating System Synchronization
• #6 - Linux programming or in B/W
  • YouTube videos on Linux programming (by 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

PWL & Noise

• #7 - Voltage, ADC, Piecewise linear, & Noise or in B/W

Debugging & Profiling

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

• #8.5 - Profiling or in B/W

• #9 - Linux file system or in B/W

Electronics

• #11 - Electronics or in B/W

Embedded Webserver

• #10 - Node.js or in B/W
  • See Node.js in Action (2nd ed) book via SFU Library online for guide to Node.js

Bit Twiddle

• #13 - Bit Twiddling or in B/W

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