The AVR-Sandbox project

General Electronics Blog:

• Circuitry
• Voltage, Current, and Resistance
• Ohm’s Law
• KVL
• KCL
• BJ Transistors
• Mosfets
• Amplifiers
• Capacitors
• Batteries
• Power Supplies
• AC Circuits
• Inductors
• RLC Circuits
• Diodes
• Electrical/Mechanical Relays
• Oscillators

Digital Electronics Blog:

• Number format system
• Basic Logic gates
• Combinatoric Logic gates
• Flip flops
• Binary Decoders
• Multiplexers
• Counters
• Shift Registers
• Voltage Comparators
• Analog Digital Converters
• Digital Analog Converters

Embedded Systems protocols and interfaces:

• General Purpose Input/Output - GPIO
• Universal Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter - UART
• Serial Peripheral Interface - SPI
• Analog Digital Converter - ADC
• Two Wire Interface - TWI
• Pulse Width Modulation - PWM
• DIY Protocol

Embedded Systems Design:

• AVR MCUs Architecture (ATmega32A/8P
• ARM MCUs Architecture (M-variant/A-variant)
• X86 CISC Architecture
• Static Libraries
• Dynamic Libraries
• Static V.S. Dynamic libraries
• Embedded Design Patterns
• Composite Pattern
• Finite State Automata (FSA)

Coding tricks and hacks:

Disclaimer: this section is for fun and to explore how the memory works under the hood, it’s not the best practice by any means.

• C arrays and Pointers Overview
• Expandable memory using “Dynamic Memory Allocation”
• Manually partitioning memory
• Memory Packing
• Struct hacks
• Pointers Alternatives
• Pointers in Java
• Memory Ownership, shared memory, restricted memory, and limited access memory

Appendix

Featured Projects:

• MCP3008 ADC Operation
• Basic Operation of TIP122 as a switch
• SerialMonitor API
• Serial4j API
• Static V.S. Dynamic Libraries
• Makefile tutorial
• CMake tutorial

Documentations:

• AVR-Documentation
• Lib-Iberty Docs
• GNU-Documentation
• C Language Reference by IBM
• C Language Reference by GNU
• Bash Reference Manual by GNU
• Bash Manual by Goalkicker
• Makefile Manual
• Java-19 docs
• JNI docs
• JVM tools docs