This is an intensive five day course covering C in the context of real-time embedded application development. Approximately 50% of the course consists of writing code for a real target. During the week, attendees will build up a complete solution to a case study that exercises all significant parts of the course.
Course objectives:
- To provide an understanding of the essentials of the C programming language.
- To give you practical experience of writing C for real-time and embedded systems.
- To demonstrate the traps and pitfalls of the language when used in a real-time system.
- To give you the confidence to apply these new concepts to your next real-time project.
Delegates will learn:
- The core C syntax and semantics
- How to access hardware and program interrupts in the language
- About memory and performance issues associated with C
- Best practices in writing C for robust systems
Pre-requisites:
- Experience of programming, e.g. another high-level language
- Prior knowledge of C is useful but not essential
Who should attend:
This course is designed for engineers who have little or no experience of using C in a real-world production environment. It brings real-world knowledge to those with an academic understanding or who are self-taught. It is also suitable for those needing to support a customer using C, and those requiring to be brought up to date since initially being taught at University.
Duration:
- Five days
Course materials:
- Delegate handbook
Course workshop:
This course makes use of target hardware during the real-time practical exercises. The board targeted is an ARM Cortex-M based MCU which gives attendees a real sense of embedded application development.
