Month: April 2013

There are many advantages to using configuration tables to initialize an MCU’s registers. The most prevalent is that a configuration table displays the peripheral module as a channel with its … Continue reading Pointer Arrays – A Timer Driver Part 2

Pointer arrays are a useful tool for mapping peripheral registers to a driver. There are many advantages to using pointer arrays such as simplified initializations and the ability to generate … Continue reading Pointer Arrays – A Timer Driver Part 1

There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common. One of the … Continue reading Using the Static Keyword in C

Microcontroller peripherals can be memory mapped using pointer arrays as demonstrated in the previous post. This method allows the peripheral to be viewed as a collection of channels that can … Continue reading Creating Configuration Tables to initialize Peripherals

The previous two posts have been exploring the fundamentals of using pointers from the basics of declaring a pointer to the more complex notation of manipulating pointers. An examination of … Continue reading A few pointers – Part 3

In part one of this series the basics of what a pointer is and how to declare one was examined in detail. It is now time to examine how pointers … Continue reading A few pointers – Part 2