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Contents 1 ARM ASSEMBLY 2 ARM ARCHITECTURE 3 GNU SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS 4 Gumstix PROGRAMMING 5 SYSTEM DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT 6 C PROGRAMMING

ARM ASSEMBLY

• ARM Assembly Language Programming, by Peter Knaggs and Stephen Welsh, August 2005
• ARM-Thumb Procedure Call Standard (pdf)
• ARM specific features of the Executable and Linking Format (ELF) (pdf)
• Quick Reference Card
  • ARM Instruction Set Quick Reference (pdf)
  • ARM Thumb 16-bit Instruction Set Quick Reference Card (pdf)
  • ARM and Thumb-2 Instruction Set Quick Reference Card (pdf)
  • ARM Vector Floating Point Instruction Set Quick Reference Card (pdf)

ARM ARCHITECTURE

• ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3530
• ARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessor (brief, two pages, pdf)
• ARM Cortex-A8 Technical Reference Manual (recommended) (764 pages, pdf)
• ARM Architecture Reference Manual (recommended) (811 pages, pdf)

GNU SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

• ARM Software Development Tools for OMAP3 (pdf), Elan Lennard, January 2009
• Buid your own toolchains, Configuration & compilation instruction from gnuarm.com
  1. binutils: includes ld - the GNU linker, as - the GNU assembler.
  2. gcc: the GNU Compiler Collection
  3. newlib: Newlib is a C library intended for use on embedded systems.
  4. insight: a graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU Debugger
• GNU Toolchain for ARM Processors (from codesourcery.com)
• GNU Manuals
• Building a GNU/Linux ARM Toolchain (from scratch)

Gumstix PROGRAMMING

• Gumstix Setup and Programming
• Using OpenEmbedded, Michael Opdenacker, Jan, 2009 (slides.pdf, lab.pdf)
• git: a short tutorial, git manual page
• ipkig

SYSTEM DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

• handhelds.org open source software for use on handheld and wearable computers
• Top 10 Reasons Embedded Systems Projects Get Into Trouble, Jack Ganssle, Embedded Systems Design, December 2006
• Get by Without an RTOS, Michael Melkonian, Embedded Systems Programming, 2000

C PROGRAMMING

• Pointer Basics. (with funny digital video)
• Essential C, by Nick Parlante pdf
• Pointers and Memory, by Nick Parlante pdf
• Linked List Basics, by Nick Parlante pdf