Section 01
Chip Basics
The part, its pins and its memories. What the part is, what is inside the package, and the handful of pins and memories you have to understand before anything else makes sense.
- 01.1 What a Microcontroller Actually IsA processor, its memory and a pile of peripherals sold as a part you solder down.
- 01.2 The Pins You Have to Get Right FirstPower, ground, reset and boot-strapping. Get these wrong and nothing else you measure means anything.
- 01.3 The Memory Types, Told ApartFive kinds of non-volatile memory that behave nothing alike.
- 01.4 Clocks, and Why the Part Will Not StartOscillators, startup time and the most common reason a new board is dead.