Tutorial for the Microcontroller MC9S08QE8

[jfernand57]

Gents,

Where can I get a tutorial for the Microcontroller MC9S08QE8?, I bought the DEMO9S08QE8 demo card, and I have not found neither in the CD's coming with the Demo Card nor in the Freescale website a tutorial to quickly learn the Microcontrollers of Freescale. I have some knowledge in MC of others manufacturers, so I am somewhat familiarized with their assembler (or instructions set) and hardware architecture.

I am looking for something that may guide me through the different parts of the HC08 MC, at the same time, with easy lessons, for instance, the memory maps, special function register, the pin out, block diagrams, the instructions set, the Interruption management, etc.

I do not have too much time to read all those bulky manuals, perhaps in the future.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Morph19]

There is no explicit tutorial from Freescale for any of theirs families of microcontrollers, the MC9S08QG8 Quick Start Tips isnt in the Freescale page, but its here in this forum, its an excellent tutorial that can help you,  also you can try search for some module that you wanna use in the aplications notes, you can learn alot about the modules if you read an aplications note that use the module.Search for this documents :
-M68HC05TB
-M68HC05AG
Those are introduction guides(books) for anyone that knows nothing about microcontrollers.
There is an HC08 book in the web by Omer Cerid,search for HC08 book in emule its very good,if you give me your email i send it to you.
The MC9S08QG8 Quick Start Tips could be your best options but dosnt have some things that you mentions: memory map, instruction set, block diagrams and use C programing not assembler.

[hari7885]

Could you send the HC08 book by Omer Cerid to my e-mail: hari7885@hgmail.com, you are very kind due to this help, I appreciate it.

Thanks

[bigmac]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Why don't you download the publication yourself?  The link is given in the previous post by Rodo55.

Regards,

Mac

[jfernand57]

Could you send the HC08 book by Omer Cerid to my e-mail: jfernand57@hotmail.com, you are very kind due to this help, I appreciate it.

Thanks

[Rodo55]

Would you send the book to me as well.

I'm new to HC08 and still learning too.

Thank You!

Rodo

 doubledutch1@hotmail.com

[Khaeops]

Not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but if so, could someone please also send me a copy of Omer's book. I have searched the net and can't find reference to it anywhere. Fabio's book however is on order!

Thanks

vc.int@bigpond.com

[Rodo55]

Khaeops,

If you go to the first page of this thread and find BIGMACs post at 2:14am you'll find the link to the webpage that has the book on it. But here it is again.

http://wwwi.elec.gla.ac.uk/teaching_pages/course_pages/EE1/Welcome_full.html

Scroll down to "Online books on microcontrollers" and you will find the book you are looking for.

Good luck,

Rodo

[Khaeops]

Thanks Rodo55, I don't know how I missed that one!

[gutighus]

Hello,

This post has been very helpful, and I downloaded the book already, which is also very helpful...although I am using an AP16, but that is still ok, cause is still in the HC08 family. And I was just wondering if there are in kind of resources such as the ones posted here, but for programming in C.

Any reply would be helpful,

Thanks,

Daniel

[JimDon]

When I google C tutorial, I get 4,530,000 hits.

[Morph19]

Rodo55 i guess that you already download the book.
I also have others books in spanish if anyone is interesed:
-Guia didactica del 68HC08.
-Iniciación a los Microcontroladores de las familias de 8 bits. HC05-HC08.
-Juego de instrucciones HC08.
Those are from Jordi Mayné.

[Rodo55]

Yes, I downloaded the book, thanks Morph and Bigmac for the information and link.

Also, I received Fabio's book this morning and I've read the first couple of chapters and looked it over and for a newbie like me it's great. Thanks Fabio Pereira.

Also, thanks to everyone else that provided help and information it's all appreciated.

Rodo

[JimDon]

Rodo55,

After you have read it, I would be interested to see your review on Amazon.

[fabio]

Well,

I can say I would love to "hear" any thoughts or opinions regarding my book!

I am happy that Rodo55 found it helpful.

Best regards,

[peg]

Hello,

I also recommend the HC05 applications guide shown above.

You also have the learning centre for what it is worth.

[bigmac]

Hello,

You will find links to the Omer Cerid publication (pertaining to the HC908GP32 device) at the following webpage -

http://wwwi.elec.gla.ac.uk/teaching_pages/course_pages/EE1/Welcome_full.html

The previously referenced book  “HCS08 Unleashed: Designer's Guide to the HCS08 Microcontrollers" by Fábio Pereira  does specifically cover the QE series.

Regards,
Mac

Message Edited by bigmac on 2008-04-16 11:38 AM

[jfernand57]

Thank you all, I have downloaded enough information to get started. All the documents and sites recommended were very interested and suitable for the purposes I am pursuing.

Thanks again!!

[Rodo55]

Welcome to another new guy just like me. I started with the 9S08QE last week and here’s what I found useful.

I found the 9S08QE8 resource manual the best source of information. You can find it on the Freescale website. But to get you up and running quickly I found following the “MC9S08QG8 Quick Start Tips” the best way to get familiar with the 9S08Q architecture. It’s by Highlander Technologies. And it’s on the Freescale website. The QG doesn’t offer all the same subsystems as the QE but it’s very close.

Freescale also has a QG8 Peripherals Code Walkthrough on their website.

Another thing I found helpful was to study the code for the DEMOQE Toolkit utilities. I ran them all and it taught me how to run Codewarrior and download programs into the S08 flash memory.

McMasterUniversity uses MC9S08QG8 MCU as part of their physics program and they have code examples on their website.

A website called systech-gmbh.ch has some tutorials/examples as well.  I think the gentleman is German so the documents take a little patience to follow but they are mostly in English.

And last but not least there are two books you can order:

“Software and Hardware Engineering” by Fredrick M. Cady Copyright 2008

It’s been helpful even though it was written for the HCS12 MCU.

I haven’t received it yet but I’ve ordered the just published book “HCS08 Unleashed: Designer's Guide to the HCS08 Microcontrollers" by Fábio Pereira who is also a contributor of this forum.  My understanding is it’s the first book written for the HCS08 architecture.

Hope this helps.

Rodo

[Rodo55]

I forgot to mention that you can download examples from Fabio's book here:

http://www.sctec.com.br/content/view/107/31/

Good luck,

Rodo