Hi everyone, as I wrote in the title, I'm coming from AVR 8-bit MCUs programming and in the last year I learnt a lot about AVR 8-bit architecture,CPU,registers and so on.
I've done a few projects coding primarily in C and something in Assembly (serial peripheral modules,LCD interfacing and other little things), always writing my own code,looking at datasheets and implementing my libraries.
I don't use IDEs I just use makefiles and alittle toolchain (GNU-GCC) and I never used a simulator/debugger (I do my debugging via USART,but this is going to change I think..).
I want to start ARM programming and I know that I'm headed towards 32 bit MCUs so I understand that I need to learn about the CORTEX-M architecture profile (I'm newbie to ARM so please correct me whenever I'm wrong).
I think my first step is to buy a book (a very good one) to start understanding the new architecture and writing some code.
What ARM MCU should I begin with? I know of two good books (which one is better to start?)
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and I know that I need a evaluation/development board with an ARM CORTEX-M core on chip.
I was thinking about mbed LPC1768 dev board,it seems to be popular and I could get one easily.
I don't know if I should begin with a CORTEX-M0 (and the relative book) or the M3/M4 core (and the other book and LPC11U24 dev board with a M0).
I want to learn to code in C and assembly,I don't want any sandbox or fancy IDE (that's why I throwed away Arduino when I started programming AVRs).
Can you give me some advices?
thanks a lot!
Luca (from Rome,Italy)
Hi luckyluke, welcome to the Community!
I have moved your question to ARM Processors for better visibility.
If you haven't found it yet, this blog post: Important ARM Technical Learning Resources is a really good place to start.
Let see if anyone else can get you some more specific info.