Week 2 Making Embedded Systems

Week 2 of 10 of the Making Embedded Systems course. This weeks schedule was smashed to pieces by a Covid-infection for me. I’ve had a fever for five days and that has really hampered my progress. We’ve done some data-sheet reading exercises and have written hardware block diagrams for different development boards. I head really hoped to do lots of experiments with the STM32 HAL, but that will have to wait until next week. Such is life. Learning computer micro architecture In the course forum someone asked about resources for learning about computer organization. Here’s my reply: “Computer organization” compasses a lot. I guess first thing is that for this course you won’t need any deeper insights into what the CPU does. You can treat it as a black box. But if you want to venture into this area out of curiosity: If you have 1 hour: To say that a computer “computes” is not telling the whole truth. Most of its time is spent moving data around. Richard Feynman describes a computer as a…