Propeller Programming
Propeller Programming
Assembler, Spin, and Test Driven Development
About the Book
The Propeller microcontroller is a powerful multi-processor chip that can be programmed in either a high-level language (C or Spin) or a much faster Assembly language (PASM). The prop is used in many educational projects and in hobby/maker applications as well is in a number of commercial products.
In this book, I use a data compression/decompression application to introduce PASM to the reader. First I go through the full algorithm is Spin and in C and then translate it to PASM. That way, if you know a high-level language, you can map the PASM steps to something familiar.
Integrating C and PASM code has particular challenges that I go through in detail.
I use Test Driven Development throughout, which is a powerful technique for validating your code.
I include a chapter on hardware interactions (setting and reading pins).
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 1
- Steim Compression 9
- Introduction to Spin 13
- Test Driven Development (TDD) 25
- Compression in Spin 29
- Propeller Assembler: PASM 41
- Compression in PASM with TDD. 61
- Decompression in PASM 79
- Debugging PASM code 91
- Interacting with the world 99
- C Programming for the Propeller 127
- Programming in Cog C Mode 143
- Programming with C and PASM 149
- Hardware I/O with C 153
- Using Inline Assembly Instructions in C code 163
- Concluding thoughts 167
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