Tag: cortex

Written by hshallcross

STM32F0 Tutorial 2 – SysTick

One of the most cool features of the ARM Cortex series of processors is the SysTick. The SysTick is a 24 bit timer with a user configurable prescalar which can be used for simple variable incrementing tasks such as incrementing a second counter or similar. For the example of done, I’ve made the SysTick counter […]

Written by hshallcross

STM32F0 Graphic Equalizer

Another cool buy that I’ve found on eBay is a 8×8 LED matrix powered by the MAX7219 (Example: http://goo.gl/lkyY4c). Its really easy to interface and uses SPI which I’m beginning to think is my favourite protocol! The STM32F0 is a pretty high quality processor based on the ARM Cortex M0 and doing a simple 8 point […]