The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3 (Embedded Technology) [Paperback]

Joseph Yiu (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750685344 | ISBN-13: 978-0750685344 | Publication Date: September 4, 2007 | Edition: 1

This user's guide does far more than simply outline the ARM Cortex-M3 CPU features; it explains step-by-step how to program and implement the processor in real-world designs. It teaches readers how to utilize the complete and thumb instruction sets in order to obtain the best functionality, efficiency, and reuseability. The author, an ARM engineer who helped develop the core, provides many examples and diagrams that aid understanding. Quick reference appendices make locating specific details a snap!

Whole chapters are dedicated to:
Debugging using the new CoreSight technology
Migrating effectively from the ARM7
The Memory Protection Unit
Interfaces, Exceptions,Interrupts
...and much more!

*The only available guide to programming and using the groundbreaking ARM Cortex-M3 processor

*Easy-to-understand examples, diagrams, quick reference appendices, full instruction and Thumb-2 instruction sets are all included

*The author, an ARM engineer on the M3 development team, teaches end users how to start from the ground up with the M3, and how to migrate from the ARM7

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Newnes; 1 edition (September 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750685344
• ISBN-13: 978-0750685344
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,451,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A An Excellent Overall Discussion of the Cortex-M3 Architecture, March 21, 2009

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D. Comer (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews

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I purchased this book despite at least one scathing reviewer's criticism. The Author states specifically in the preface, "This book is intended to be a lighter read for programmers, embedded product designers, System-on-a-Chip (SOC) engineers, electronics enthusiasts, academic researchers, and others with some experience of microcontrollers or microprocessors who are investigating the Cortex-M3 processor." I interpret that to mean the book has a wide audience in mind, some with less experience than others. That said, I found this book to be on par with those written by various authors for the Newness series on Microchips products

The book has a good overview of the architecture without focusing on any one vendor's implementation. However, I felt that I would have liked to see a brief comparison of some of the various vendor offerings and what the key architectural components were implemented or left out. It can be argued that a vendor data sheet is the appropriate place for such information; just be aware this book is a general survey. The discussion in the back of the book on the Keil and GNU tool chains turned out to be non-essential for myself as I am using IAR's tool chain. Your mileage may vary.

Reason's to purchase this book, in my opinion, are to understand some of the background of the ARM architecture (not a complete review, but enough to understand where the Coretex-M3 fits in to the rest of the ARM series and the odd nomenclature of the ARM series) as well as an overview of how the architecture is put together. Then, a specific vendor's implementation of the ARMv7 can be pursued with a better understanding of what the vendor has implemented and how to use the implementation.

(Added 1/20/2009)
Note that with the introduction of Atmel's Cortex M3 product line, the popularity of the Luminary/TI Cortex M3 series, and others, this book is one of the few or, perhaps the only, books on the market that helps individuals new to the Cortex M3 get up to speed on the architecture and programming of the Cortex M3.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cortex M3, November 12, 2008

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Jim Patchell "Jim" (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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I just recieved this book. This is the book you need if you are going to be doing any sort of serious programming for the Arm Cortex M3 processor. I was reluctant to purchase it because of some of the bad reviews that it recieved. But it does cover a lot of the details of how the hardware functions and programming at the assembly level, which seems to be almost imposible to find anywhere else. I am very happy with this book (I am a long time...30+years micro controller programmer).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful, June 25, 2010

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S. S. Skogsrud (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3, Second Edition (Paperback)

I just finished reading and rereading this book. I wish I had a book like this when I started out programming the Atmel AVR-chips. It took me half a year to grasp that platform the way I did the Cortex-M3 after five hours with this book. It is one of the most pleasant to-the-metal hardware descriptions I have read. Yiu has an intimate knowledge of the Cortex-M3-design and shares not only the facts of the matter, but also convey the intentions behind the design choices.

For the casual microcontroller hacker this book might be entertaining overkill - but if you are developing timing-critical applications and feel the need to really grasp the core before pushing it to the limit - this is the book to read.