Embedded Programming With Atmega328

Learn embedded C, assembly & mixed programming, AVR microcontroller internals, GPIO, EEPROM & more

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.6

- AVR Micro-controller architecture & it's working - Instruction execution
- pipelining
- stack pointer & interrupts
- C
- AVR assembly programming & implement mixed language projects
- Arguments and return values passing from a function to another
- how memory & CPU registers are allocated during program execution

What you'll learn

AVR Micro-controller architecture & it's working - Instruction execution

pipelining

stack pointer & interrupts

AVR assembly programming & implement mixed language projects

Arguments and return values passing from a function to another

how memory & CPU registers are allocated during program execution

How hardware manages program stack and management of local & global variables

Interrupts

interrupt vector table (IVT) and interrupt service routine (ISR)

IVT & ISR programming

Build environment setup

GNU tools & utilities & build automation using GNU Make

Setup in-circuit programmer and USB-Serial adapter

flash & configure ATmega328 micro-controller

GPIO Programming

4x4 keypad interfacing & driver development

* Requirements

* Prior exposure to computer architecture
* digital circuit & C programming is good to have but not mandatory
* Curiosity & enthusiasm to learn
* Development board components
* PC & open source software

Description

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What you will gain from this course?

You will rig-up the development board using the basic electronic components like capacitors, resistors, LEDs, microcontroller etc. And interface the development board with PC through USB-serial adapter and in-circuit programming. You shall setup the development environment on PC, configure the microcontroller and flash the bootloader.

You will learn memory management through the C compiler, microcontroller architecture, instruction execution, interrupt handling and cross-language programming. You shall implement programs using the C and Assembly programming languages and implement pre-main functionalities to bring up the development board. These topics not only introduce you to the programming but also prepare you to deal with the ecosystem of programming an embedded system.

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Planned updates to this course

On the demand of our student’s we are continuously bringing updates that could help you more in this topic. Updates to this course are life time free for enrolled students Let’s talk more about this in the discussions section inside this course.

Update 4 (5th, Feb'19): Added EEPROM programming & driver development.

Update 3 (22nd, Jan’19): Added a section for programming challenges solution.

Update 2 (15th, Jan’19): Added section on GPIO

Update 1 (1st, Jan'19): Restructured the course.

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Who this course is for:

Students who want to learn/understand a fairly complex microcontroller based project from scratch
Students who are studying embedded system & want to acquire deeper insight
Engineers who want to kick-start career in embedded system programming
Individual who wants to learn microcontroller & programming
Hobbits & electronics enthusiast

Course content

11 sections • 92 lectures

Introduction 4 lectures

Course Preview Preview 04:17

Course Structure Preview 02:48

Hardware & Software Requirement Preview 02:31

Important: Course Update Preview 00:39

AVR Microcontroller 10 lectures

Goal & Content Preview 01:48

AVR Microcontroller Organization Preview 08:04

ATMega328/P Architecture Preview 08:48

Program Stack Preview 04:43

Program Stack Frame Preview 14:55

Interrupts Preview 08:30

Memory Preview 08:46

Instruction Set Preview 10:42

Quiz - ATmega328/P microcontroller

Test your learning of ATmega328/P microcontroller.

Section Round-up Preview 01:27

Embedded Programming - 1 11 lectures

Goal & Contents Preview 01:06

C & Its Structure Preview 07:08

Identifiers & Keywords Preview 02:48

Quiz - C, its structure, identifiers & keywords

Test your understanding of C, its structure, identifiers and keywords.

Data Types & Array Preview 05:11

Constant & Statement Preview 06:09

Operators, Precedence & Associativity Preview 11:32

Control Statement Preview 14:05

Functions Preview 05:01

Quiz - data types, operators, functions & control statements

Test your learning of data types, operators, functions and control statements.

Section Round-up Preview 01:06

Embedded Programming - 2 13 lectures

Goal & Content Preview 01:40

Bitwise Operations - C Preview 06:51

Bitwise Operations - Assembly Preview 07:45

Quiz - Test your C skill

Test your C skill

Storage Class Preview 10:29

Volatile Preview 12:25

Macro Preview 06:10

Quiz - Test your C skill

Test your C skill

Inline Function Preview 08:35

Pointers Preview 15:57

Cross Language Programming Preview 09:59

Inline Assembly Programming Preview 08:22

Section Round-up Preview 01:08

Interrupts & pre-main() 7 lectures

Goal & Content Preview 01:45

Interrupts Preview 09:08

IVT Placement - Linker Preview 10:41

IVT Placement - C Code Preview 11:31

External Interrupt Preview 16:46

Pin Change Interrupt Preview 15:38

Section Round-up Preview 01:19

General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) 6 lectures

Goal & Content Preview 00:51

GPIO section introduction

Introduction to GPIO on AVR microcontrollers Preview 09:53

You will learn about the General Purpose Input Output port available in the ATmeag328 uC. You will also learn about the registers used to configure, read and write the GPIO ports.

GPIO Port/Pin Configuration Preview 07:44

You will learn how to configuration GPIO ports and understand read and write operation.

How to Program GPIO Port? Preview 11:45

You shall interface LEDs and button switches with the GPIO pins and implement a program to control the LEDs using the switches.

Interface 4x4 Keypad & Develop Driver Program [Part I] Preview 09:21

You will interface the 4x4 keypad with the development board and implement the driver program.

Interface 4x4 Keypad & Develop Driver Program [Part II] Preview 15:05

You will interface the 4x4 keypad with the development board and implement the driver program.

EEPROM Driver 5 lectures

Introduction: EEPROM Programming Preview 08:43

AVR microcontrollers have internal EEPROM for semi-permanent data storage. Like flash memory, EEPROM can maintain its contents when electrical power is removed. The ATmega328/P contains 1K bytes of EEPROM memory. EEPROM stands for Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory which is a type of non-volatile memory used in various electronic devices to store relatively small amount of data.

EEPROM Operations Preview 10:10

In this lesson, you will learn about the different programming operations of the EEPROM memory.

EEPROM Driver Implementation [1st Approach] - Part I Preview 08:15

In this lesson, you shall implement the EEPROM driver. The driver shall support all the three operating modes those are Erase & write, Erase only and Write only. It exposes four functions to be consumed by the application module. These functions are eeprom_init(), eeprom_read(), eeprom_write() and eeprom_erase().

EEPROM Driver Implementation [1st Approach] Part II Preview 13:14

In the previous lesson, you defined the EEPROM registers, the function prototypes and implemented the functions eeprom_init(). In this lesson, you shall continue with the remaining implementation.

Interrupt Based EEPROM Driver [2nd Approach] Preview 10:50

In the previous lesson you developed EEPROM driver and tested its all the three operations. In this lesson, you shall learn about interrupt based EEPROM driver. We shall modify the earlier implementation to incorporate the interrupt triggered write operation.

In the earlier lesson, we disabled the EEPROM Ready Interrupt bit in the EECR register. If the bit is set, the EEPROM ready interrupt will be triggered constantly when EEPE bit is cleared. That means when the program starts the uC will be executing EEPROM Ready interrupt service routine only and the code in main program is never executed. Note this point, it is important while designing interrupt based EEPROM driver.