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Embedded Systems Cellular Firmware Development(GSM)

Name: Embedded Systems Cellular Firmware Development(GSM)
Rating: 4.8 (19 reviews)

Communicate with your embedded devices using cellular technology : Phone Call, SMS, M2M etc.

Created byBHM Engineering Academy, Israel Gbati

Last updated 2/2023

English

What you'll learn

Understand the Fundamentals of Cellular Technology
Develop a Complete Library for using Cellular chips with STM32 microcontrollers
Develop First-In-First-Out (FIFO) Data Structure for Managing Communication Data
Develop Bare-Metal Firmware for Controlling Hardware Modules by SMS
Develop Bare-Metal Firmware for Controlling Hardware Modules by Phone Call
Develop Bare-Metal Firmware for automatically sending SMS or making Phone Call by Hardware Trigger
Develop Bare-Metal Firmware for automatically sending Sensor data when an RTC alarm occurs
Develop Bare-Metal Firmware for sending Sensor data periodically by RTC
Develop a Bare-Metal Realtime Clock (RTC) driver

Course content

11 sections • 48 lectures • 10h 0m total length

Downloading CubeIDE2:34
Installing CubeIDE2:38
Install CubeIDE by downloading, extracting, and running the installer; configure the workspace, adjust the installation location, allow firewall access, and optionally share usage statistics.
Getting the best out of this training0:26
Getting the required Documentation9:06
Download the datasheet, reference manual, and user guides to read registers and configure the microcontroller peripherals. Use UART peripheral and pinout guidance to build the driver for the GSM module.
Setting Up the first project15:16
Set up the gsm module driver project in cube ide for an stm32 f4 board, creating a new workspace and importing the sdm32 f4 cmc headers and device includes.

Programming : Copying Data from FIFO to UART8:44
Copy data from the transmit FIFO to the UART by implementing a transfer function that waits for the tx data register to be empty, then writes characters to the UART.
Programming : Finding responses in the RX Data Stream10:57
Programming : Implementing an Interrupt Callback to process RX Data Stream11:03
Programming : Initializing the A6 GSM Chip21:18
Programming : Running some common commands11:09

Programming : Developing the LED Module12:05
Programming : Developing the Push Button Module14:13
Build and test a push button driver for an embedded GSM system by configuring PC13 as an input, enabling GPIO clocks, and implementing a boolean get_button_state for an active-low button.
Programming : Developing the ADC Initialization function18:06
Programming : Developing the ADC Read function14:04
Overview of the Real Time Clock (RTC)10:49
Explore the real time clock (RTC) architecture, including backup and main power domains, backup registers, alarms, wakeups, timestamp, tamper detection, and the calendar with BCD encoding.
Programming : Developing the RTC Initialization function52:01
Programming : Developing the RTC Alarm Initialization function (Part I)6:05
Programming : Developing the RTC Alarm Initialization function (Part II)13:36
Enable rtc alarm initialization by disabling write protection, entering initialization mode, and configuring date, time, and alarm registers via bit shifts, masks, and bcd fields, including pm vs 24-hour format.
Programming : Developing the RTC Alarm Initialization function (Part III)6:58
Develops the RTC alarm initialization by masking the alarm register with mask bits to ignore the weekday, and enables the alarm in the control register.
Programming : Developing the RTC Alarm Initialization function (Part IV)9:00
Programming : Testing the RTC29:01
Learn to test the RTC by reading date and time from registers, convert between BCD and binary, and handle alarm interrupts to display time on a console.

Programming : Controlling Hardware from SMS26:26
Programming : Controlling Hardware from a Phone Call19:05
Programming : Sending SMS by Hardware Trigger8:47
Use a push button as a hardware trigger to send an sms, configure the button state, and send a message to a designated number when pressed, illustrating a tamper-detection scenario.
Programming : Sending Sensor Data as SMS Triggered by RTC Alarm10:43
Programming : Sending Sensor Data as SMS Periodically with RTC7:16
Send sensor data as SMS periodically using the rtc, triggering every minute by comparing previous and current rtc minutes, with gsm initialization preceding rtc setup.

Requirements

NUCLEO-STM32F411 DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A6 GSM/GPRS Module

Description

Welcome to the Embedded Systems Cellular Firmware Development(GSM) course

This course teaches you how to develop drivers and libraries for adding cellular functionality to your embedded device.

This course uses the STM32 microcontroller and the A6 GSM/GPRS chip. The A6 is a low-cost quad band GSM/GPRS chip equipped with 850/900/1800/1900MHz worldwide communication band. If you do not understand what a band means, do not worry, by the end of this course you will understand this and much more.

The drivers developed in this course will work on almost all cellular chips out there, this is because most of them use the UART for communication.

The course can be divided into three parts. The first part is theoretical. In this part we shall learn about some cellular technology concepts and the fundamentals of the GSM architecture.

In the next part of the course we shall develop bare-metal drivers for interfacing the A6 chip to the STM32 microcontroller.

After developing our drivers for connecting the A6 chip to the STM32 microcontroller we shall then go ahead and develop efficient data structures for managing communication data between the A6 chip and the STM32 microcontroller.

In the final part we shall combine the drivers and data structures developed in the previous parts to develop a library for connecting to the cellular network. We shall then go ahead to develop some real world applications.

Some Highlights :

If you want to understand the concept of a SIM card see section 2
If you want to know the difference between 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G see section 2
If you want to know the difference between GSM, LTE, WCDMA, see section 2
If you want to control hardware modules by SMS see section 10
If you want to control hardware modules by Phone Call see section 10
If you want to automatically send SMS or make a Phone Call by hardware trigger see section 10
If you want to develop a bare-metal realtime clock(RTC) driver see section 9
If you want to send sensor data by SMS triggered by an RTC alarm see section 10
If you want to send sensor data as SMS periodically with RTC see section 10

Please take a look at the full course curriculum.

REMEMBER : I have no doubt you will love this course. Also it comes with a FULL money back guarantee for 30 days! So put simply, you really have nothing to loose and everything to gain.

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Who this course is for:

If you are an embedded developer and want to learn how to add cellular functionality to your embedded device then take this course.

Embedded Systems Cellular Firmware Development(GSM)

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Course content

Getting Started5 lectures • 30min

Introduction to Cellular Technology6 lectures • 38min

Developing the Debug UART Driver5 lectures • 57min

Developing the A6 UART Driver1 lecture • 18min

Developing a Timebase for the System1 lecture • 18min

Developing a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) Data Structure for Managing Data3 lectures • 39min

Developing the A6 GSM Chip Library5 lectures • 1hr 3min

Developing A6 GSM Embedded Applications5 lectures • 1hr 19min

Developing Some Hardware Modules for Building Real World Examples11 lectures • 3hr 6min

Developing Some Real World Applications5 lectures • 1hr 12min

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