Electrum-100 Manual/References

From Manuals

This section outlines material that may be useful for further reading.

Documents

AT91SAM9G20 Microcontroller Data Sheet

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4337

This data sheet provides reference information for the AT91SAM9G20 microcontroller, describing the functional blocks of the system-on-chip (SoC) device designed around the ARM926EJ-S processor. All MCU registers are described in the data sheet.

at91lib Software Library

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4343

AT91 peripheral drivers and code examples. Shows which processor registers are commonly used with the microcontroller peripherals. Some of the logic can be used under Linux user space applications by invoking mmap() to map the peripheral base address to a virtual address.

Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial

http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~simonn/ON3/device_driver_tutorial.pdf

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux

This article by Xavier Calbet published on Free Software Magazine is a good introduction to Linux device drivers.

Books

Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (2nd Edition)

by Christopher Hallinan

ISBN: 0137017839 Publisher: Prentice Hall (November, 2010)

Excellent reference on embedded Linux including processor selection, bootloaders, kernel building, device drivers, file systems and remote debugging.

Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition

by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman

ISBN: 0131679848 Publisher: O'Reilly Media (February, 2005)

Covers the Linux interfaces to hardware and techniques for writing device drivers, including ports, memory management, timers and interrupts. Free online versions are available in HTML and PDF formats.