Embedded Systems: Real-Time Interfacing to Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers

Used for E E 445L. Overall a great book and a great class taught by a great professor.

Book is great! I am taking Valvano's class in the future, but reading it ahead of time was very enjoyable!

This book gives you a very thorough look into the ARM Cortex-M4F architecture and soup-to-nuts perspective of "why" things are laid out the way they are, "how" you can architect and organize systems solutions around it. Great electrical engineering foundation material to link the digital realm to the analog reality. One thing missing that I hoped to find was a discussion on DMA. The feature is mentioned in passing but never covered.

Really good book for learning the ARM cortex processor set. Have found it extremely useful throughout a uni course and will keep this one around as reference for usage of the processor set in the future!

I love this book content, an excellent starting point to the sometimes confusing ARM Processor development, I'd suggest to promote the use of free software toolchains like GCC rather than focusing on a proprietary development environment such as Keil which licenses are so expensive, apart from that I really recommend this book!

This book is very similar to the previous volume, "Introduction to ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers". In fact at least 1/3 of the material of the book is a copy and paste from the previous volume. I would not recommend reading this book from front cover to back cover. In my experience, I believe it is better to treat this book more as a reference manual to refer to for topics you don't quite understand. The book basically talks about how microcontrollers work, particularly, the TM4C123 and the TM4C1294. It simplifies much of the formal talk written in the datasheets for those devices, but in exchange, does not cover the entirety of the exact functionality of those devices. There has also been an inclusion of Internet of Things as a topic in the later part of the book, although it still does not explain the concept very well and instead points the reader into some examples that utilize IoT. I would not recommend this book to people wanting to just read about microcontrollers and not taking a class about it. However, since this book goes together with the actual UT Austin class EE445L, you probably aren't buying it for a leisure read.For EE445L Students:1. Go to Valvano's Website: [...] This webpage contains supplementary material that you really will need to understand what the book is saying. Also it contains the programs, that were written in the book. On this page: [...], you can find all the materials you will need for this course. If you click on the "Lectures" tab and scroll down to "Volume 2 EE445L Fall 2015 Lecture slides" and click to see all slides, you will find all powerpoint slides to help you with your labs.2. The edition number does not matter too much.3. If you registered for the course, wait for a special email to come before deciding to buy the book4. Buy coffee and say goodbye to 6-8 hr sleeps.Hopefully this review has at least somewhat benefitted you. In summary, this book is okay, but seems more like a manual. It goes together with the class called EE445L at UT Austin. If your not taking EE445L, then you probably should use a different book. Of course if your still tempted, why not buy it and experience the HD view of this book and class.

It is a very good tool for embedded systems designers like Me!

I got this because it's volume 2 of the author's series and was referenced heavily in volume 1 which I enjoyed. A lot of the same material is covered but with different examples. These illustrate aspects of the TI Tiva ARM processor that weren't covered in the first volume in most cases. My only problems with the book are: 1) it's a print on demand book so the font and page layouts aren't as polished as an edited/published book, and 2) a lot of the same introductory material that detracted from the first volume is reprinted here. For the price of this textbook I can overlook the first - print on demand. For the second all I can suggest is you gloss over the first third of the book. If you started with the first volume you've read it once already anyway. Very worthwhile series in any event. The data sheet for this processor is over 1,200 pages long. The books really help you navigate through the information you need to know to use the processor.

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Ce livre couvre la seconde partie du module en iot de l’université du Texas. Très bien expliqué et concis.

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I recently started work as an Embedded Software Engineer, and after a lifetime of using Intel processors I found Valvano's books on the Cortex M microcontrollers refreshingly clear, amusing and informative; well written, with plenty of examples of different manufacturer's implementations of the core; well illustrated and with plenty of "have you understood what I told you" exercises.All in all, a highly commendable set of books.

Si esperas un libro practico con explicaciones claras de como hacer un proyecto determinado, con este libro te quedaras con las ganas. Mucha descripcion generica de interfaces hardware, pero no profundiza en el contenido y el desarrollo. Un consejo, busca notas de aplicacion de tu fabricante de micros habitual, aprenderas mucho más.