What is a good book to use with FRDM-KL25Z?

You mentioned you teach in your other question. So I assume you would be at a University. If so, under the ARM University Program, we have what is called a Lab-in-a-Box (LiB), hardware and software replete with teaching materials, made BY and FOR academics, spanning everything from lecture slides for a semester-long course, lecture notes, exercises with solutions, lab experiments with solutions to projects and sample midterm and final exams with solutions. Incidentally and interestingly, there is just the kind of LiB you may be interested in on the FRDM KL25Z. University faculty can request a DONATION of this LiB online using an official email ID the following way. We do of course qualify the request first, so please submit your request to the best level of detail.

1. Go to the webpage at http://www.arm.com/support/university/educators/processor/index.php
2. Choose the tab “Freescale Freedom” on the virtual file folder
3. Scroll down to the “Request Donation” Blue button in the center of the page below the Lab-in-a-Box advertisement
4. Click on the Blue button, fill in the details in the email that pops up and then send in your request

Hope the above helps. These teaching materials along with Joseph Yiu's books and pointers would surely get you going in the best possible manner.

Best Regards,

Sadanand Gulwadi

ARM University Program Manager (Bangalore)

You mentioned you teach in your other question. So I assume you would be at a University. If so, under the ARM University Program, we have what is called a Lab-in-a-Box (LiB), hardware and software replete with teaching materials, made BY and FOR academics, spanning everything from lecture slides for a semester-long course, lecture notes, exercises with solutions, lab experiments with solutions to projects and sample midterm and final exams with solutions. Incidentally and interestingly, there is just the kind of LiB you may be interested in on the FRDM KL25Z. University faculty can request a DONATION of this LiB online using an official email ID the following way. We do of course qualify the request first, so please submit your request to the best level of detail.

1. Go to the webpage at http://www.arm.com/support/university/educators/processor/index.php
2. Choose the tab “Freescale Freedom” on the virtual file folder
3. Scroll down to the “Request Donation” Blue button in the center of the page below the Lab-in-a-Box advertisement
4. Click on the Blue button, fill in the details in the email that pops up and then send in your request

Hope the above helps. These teaching materials along with Joseph Yiu's books and pointers would surely get you going in the best possible manner.

Best Regards,

Sadanand Gulwadi

ARM University Program Manager (Bangalore)

HI Sadanand,

Is this offer available for Maker or Hackerspace too ? or if any individual would like to host a community event for learning can they apply for this programme too ?

Thanks

Hi,

For Maker and Hackerspace, mbed.org might be better. It already has a very large user community (It think it has over 50K users). And some of the users also have their local groups and events.

While the boards are not free, many of them are very low cost. For example, the Freescale board mentioned by Donald is less than 10 UK pounds.

The tool chain is free to use and the SDK is open source.

If you want something specific on learning DSP, I know that Donld Reay (a different Donald, also a lecturer) is going to publish a book called Digital Signal Processing and Applications Using the ARM Cortex M4: Donald Reay: 9781118859049: Amazon.com: Books

regards,

Joseph

Well, the teaching materials in the LiB were specially and specifically created by academics to help universities adopt state-of-the-art ARM technology rapidly. For purposes beyond the university space, depending on whether it is the full or lite (training) version of the materials that one would be interested in, individuals interested in hosting community events for learning or involved in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) may consider becoming an ARM University Program (Training) Partner. For more info, since I presume you are based in UK, you may write to my counterpart Robert Iannello in ARM Cambridge at university@arm.com. Thanks.

Regards,

Sadanand Gulwadi

ARM University Program Manager (Bangalore)

Thanks Sadanand .

For the Maker and Hackerspace, the ARM Cortex-M3 based mbed board (NXP LPC1768) would be my favorite. Why? Because, besides the online mbed.org repository that has a whole lot of interesting info and DIY material for the mbed Board, the authors of the book "Fast and Effective Embedded Systems Design Using the ARM mbed", Rob Toulson and Tim Wilmshurst, have created a repository called embeddedacademic.com around the mbed Board, which is equally rich in every sense of the word - Power-point Slides for Academics as well as those hoping to host community events for learning, Program Examples for the Hobbyists and Budding Entrepreneurs and Instructor Support for the Pure Academics, to suggest a few things available on that website. Last, but not least, many things written for the mbed Board could possibly easily be adapted to the ARM Cortex-M0+ based Freedom Board or FRDM KL25Z, which is also mbed enabled!

Regards,

Sadanand Gulwadi