Arduino Internals

Description

Arduino Internals guides you to the heart of the Arduino board. Author Dale Wheat shares his intimate knowledge of the Arduino board—its secrets, its strengths and possible alternatives to its constituent parts are laid open to scrutiny in this book. Youll learn to build new, improved Arduino boards and peripherals, while conforming to the Arduino reference design.Arduino Internals begins by reviewing the current Arduino hardware and software landscape. In particular, it offers a clear analysis of how the ATmega8 board works and when and where to use its derivatives. The chapter on the «hardware heart» is vital for the rest of the book and should be studied in some detail.Furthermore, Arduino Internals offers important information about the CPU running the Arduino board, the memory contained within it and the peripherals mounted on it. To be able to write software that runs optimally on what is a fairly small embedded board, one must understand how the different parts interact. Later in the book, youll learn how to replace certain parts with more powerful alternatives and how to design Arduino peripherals and shields.