I'm new to ARM.
If one wants to learn about ARM - using the Freescale FRDM-KL25Z, what is the best or a good book to use?
Thanks
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 ?
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)
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!