Participants

This C Programming training course is designed to suit developers and programmers of embedded systems with some experience in programming.

You probably wish to deepen your C programming knowledge.

Previous knowledge

You need to have basic knowledge in C programming, corresponding to our course C programming for embedded systems, part I .

Practical exercises / Tools

This course have many exercises following up the theory part of the training.

We use an integrated Windows environment. You will edit, compile and link you code via a compiler from Keil, and a Lauterbach-debug connected to an ARM Cortex-M3 board.

Content

Introduction

What C language has meant and future possibilities, i.e. C++

Short retrospect (part I)

Special C language-phrases / words

• Portable code; What to keep in mind with writing code possible to reuse in other projects

• Advanced structures; Compound data types and references with pointers and links. Dynamic memory management in combination with structures

• Self defined data types; Definitions and differences versus the use of macros

• Using pointers; Thorough review regarding the use of pointers, and their advantages.

• Function pointers; Function calls via function pointers. Abstract data types. Examples of implementation of an abstract data type and its use

• Assembler and C; How a call from C to Assembler is done

• Hardware; How to write C towards a special HW

• Library; We create libraries with functions and use them in practice.

• Optimising; How does optimising affect the program?

• Error handling; How to avoid errors and program crashes.

General info:

Loan of training lab kit are included but you bring your own laptop to this event.