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We will use the STM32F429ZIT6 microcontroller as the embedded system throughout the book. This microcontroller is developed by STMicroelectronics and has several desirable properties for our purposes. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to become familiar with its architecture. Microcontroller architecture consists of two parts as hardware and software. Hardware covers all properties related to design of the microcontroller and its peripheral units. Software deals with the low-level programming (via assembly language) to reach and modify hardware and peripheral units. We will deal with these in the following chapters in detail. However, we will briefly introduce them here to show the general microcontroller structure. We cannot use the microcontroller alone since it depends on other support modules to work properly. Therefore, companies introduced development boards and kits to serve this purpose. We picked the 32F429IDISCOVERY kit with the STM32F429ZIT6 microcontroller on it to be used for this purpose throughout the book. We will introduce properties of this board in this chapter as well. Hence, we will be ready to use the microcontroller and board as the embedded system in the following chapters.
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Ünsalan, C., Gürhan, H.D., Yücel, M.E. (2022). Microcontroller Architecture. In: Embedded System Design with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88439-0_2
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