Designing an MCU circuit, what to read?

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Well, I haven’t quit decided which MCU I am going to use. I am thinking of going for SAM9260.

I have never designed a circuit board again my self. I attempted to do a LPC2138 board

by looking at other examples if schematics. I ended up with somewhat a design on eagle which I never

had the chance to test if it actually works. I know the basics of everything.

Would you suggest me any books to search or what to google so that I can acquire enought knoweldge

to be able to build a circuit board for an MCU?

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Start with something simple, like a PIC or AVR.

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“The Art of Electronics”

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electroni … 0521370957

'nuff said…

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leon_heller:
Start with something simple, like a PIC or AVR.

[http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/1886244](http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ATTINY48-AU/ATTINY48-AU-ND/1886244)

You think this mcu would be easy enough for me?

I know you know a lot about circuit design. I have been member of your LPC group.

Which books have you read to help you get to this level?

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MCU code using the integrated flowchart tool; and test micro-controller applications in a mixed circuit environment. A unique feature of TINA is that you can bring your circuit to life with the optional USB controlled TINALab II and LogiXplorer hardware, which turns your computer into a powerful, multifunction T&M instrument. Electrical engineers will find TINA an easy to use, high performance tool, while educators will welcome its unique features for the training environment.

Thanks a lot

Anthony

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The ATtiny48 is a good place to start. The AVR microcontrollers have a pretty clean architecture, have outstanding free compilers and other tools available, and there is a lot of example code and circuit designs for them. Also, if you choose an ATmega48/88/168/328, you can be “Arduino-compatible”.