ARC Development System User's Guide

• Installing ARC on your system
  • Create a main directory for ARC on your system
  • Decide on which host and target packages you need
    • Host Platforms
    • Target Platforms
  • Copy the software to your site
  • Extract the software from the tar archive files
  • Install the license key
  • Set up the default kernel
  • Delete old versions of the libraries
• Getting started using ARC
  • Set up your environment to use ARC
  • Set up to use your serial port
  • Connect a serial cable to your processor board
    • Motorola BCC and Vesta boards
    • TattleTale 332 board
  • Check that you can run the ARC serial interaction program
  • Add a reset button
  • Add power to your board
    • Motorola BCC and Vesta Power Connection
    • Tattletale Power Connection
  • Make sure your board boots and talks to ARC
  • Load a program to your board using ARC
• Using the ARC serial interaction program
  • Overview
  • Using ARC
    • Prompt vs. pass-through mode
    • ARC root window
    • Process windows
  • ARC commands
  • Loading files in ARC
    • Loading user programs and libraries in ARC
    • Loading multiple C files in ARC
      • Specifying multiple C files in load line in ARC
      • Using list files
      • Using Make files
    • Loading a new kernel using ARC
    • Loading a new bootstrap using ARC
• Compiling programs under ARC
  • Specifying which libraries and kernel to use
    • Choosing the kernel which is right for you
    • Specifying which kernel in a project-specific way
    • Specifying your personal default kernel
  • Using arcc
  • Changing program startup parameters
• Kernel
  • Kernel Overview
  • Memory Management
    • Memory Map Module
    • Malloc Module
  • Polling vs. Interrupts
  • User console
    • Command summary
    • Running programs
    • Viewing memory usage
    • Process management
    • Viewing and modifying memory
    • Setting system parameters
    • Miscellaneous
• ARC Programming Reference
  • Standard input/output functions
  • File input/output functions
  • String/memory functions
  • Malloc functions
  • Persistents
  • Queues
  • Locks
  • Interrupt functions
  • Multitasking
    • Process creation/deletion
    • Scheduler control
    • Defer
    • Manipulation of running processes
    • Time functions
    • Printing functions
  • 332 hardware registers
  • 332 System Integration Module functions
    • General Use functions
    • Digital I/O support
    • Clock control
    • Chip select module
    • Asynchronous Serial configuration
  • 332 TPU functions
    • TPU module configuration
    • TCR control
    • Channel control
    • TPU Interrupt support
    • General timer channel configuration
    • Channel functions
      • DIO
      • PWM
      • ITC
      • OC
      • PPWA
• Vesta Hardware Specifics
  • Vesta Board Diagram
  • Vesta RAM/ROM selection Jumpers
  • Second serial port
• Building Serial Cables
  • Serial ports on various machines
  • Serial adapter construction
  • Ordering the adapters