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Visual Cue Narration
Slide 1: Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Mixing Assembly and C programming.
Slide 2:

Learning objectives

In this tutorial, we will learn to:
  • Write a function in Assembly routine to perform initialisation.
  • Call that Assembly routine in AVR-GCC program to blink the Dot LED of the Seven Segment display.
Slide 3:

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of :
  • Electronics
  • AVR-GCC and
  • Assembly Programming
Slide 4:

System Requirement

To record this tutorial, I am using:
  • Arduino UNO Board and
  • Ubuntu Linux operating system version 14.04
Slide 5:

External Devices

We also require some external devices such as:
  • Breadboard
  • Seven-Segment Display
  • 220 ohm Resistor
  • Arduino UNO Board and
  • Jumper Wires
Circuit Connections (new-dot-blink.jpg) The Dot pin of the Seven Segment Display is connected to the pin 13 of the Arduino.

Any one of the common pins is connected to the +5Volts through a resistor.

Show the real connection

dot-blink-setup.jpeg

This is the live setup of the connection.
Now we will write an Assembly routine to perform the initialisation.
Open any text editor and type the following.
Open text editor This assembly routine program initialises and sets pin 13 of Arduino as output.
Highlight according to narration:

#define __SFR_OFFSET 0

#include <avr/io.h>

Let me explain the code line by line.

This line sets the Special Function Register offset to zero.

.global init

.section .text

These two lines make this assembly routine globally accessible.

It enables other programs to use it.

init:

LDI R16, 0b00100000

OUT DDRB, R16

RET

Here init is the subroutine name.

These two lines sets pin 13 of Arduino as output.

Save the file Save the code as initasm.S in capital in the Downloads folder.

Since this is the subroutine, it is saved as .S extension.

All codes used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link of this tutorial.

You can download and use it.

Now we will write an AVR-GCC program to call this subroutine and blink the Dot LED.
Open text editor Open any text editor and type the following.
This code will blink the Dot LED continuously.
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#include <avr/io.h>

#include <util/delay.h>

int main (void)

{

init ();

while(1)

{

PORTB = ((0 << PB5));

_delay_ms (10000L);

PORTB = ((1 << PB5));

_delay_ms (10000L);

}

return 0;

}

The first line,”init()” calls the Assembly subroutine.

These lines of code alternatively turn the Dot LED on and off causing it to blink.

Save the code Save the code as blink.c in the Downloads folder.
Point to the Makefile Download the Makefile from the code files link of this tutorial.

Place it in the same folder where blink.c file is saved.

Open the Makefile I’ll open the Makefile in text editor.
Note that this Makefile is different from the one previously used.
Highlight the lines in the Makefile In the Makefile, ensure that “TARGET = blink” and ASRC = “initasm.S”

Here “blink” is the main program and “initasm” is the subroutine.

You need to change the filename and subroutine name if you have given a different name.

Then save the Makefile.

Switch to the terminal.
Type,

> cd /home/spoken/Downloads

> make FNAME = blink

Go to the folder where blink.c file is saved.

Type, make space FNAME in capital =blink and press Enter.

Point to the output

dot-blink.mov

Now you can see that the Dot LED is blinking.
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
Slide 6:

Summary

In this tutorial, we learnt to:
  • Write a function in Assembly routine to perform initialisation and
  • Call that Assembly routine in AVR-GCC program to blink the Dot LED.
Assignment As an assignment-
  • Change the above program to increase the delay.
  • Observe the delay in the blinking of the Dot LED
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Slide 10:

Acknowledgement

Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.

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This tutorial has been contributed by FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.

This is Priya from IIT Bombay.

Thanks for watching.

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