Hello experts,

Please let me know if anyone has sample project/code for controlling the buttons/joystick/Timer program for sam7-ex256...or any other sample codes will help me...

I am learning ARM and bought this sam7-ex256 board for hobby project and to learn the arm programming... Any tutorials on sam7-ex256 or sample codes will be great help... I have done coding for Backlight , LCD Display, Delay program...Now want to play around with Timers,Buttons...Please help me out in this case!!!

THANKS A TON!!!

Try looking at software item 3, which claims to support the buttons and joystick.
http://www.olimex.com/dev/sam7-ex256.html

Pretty much going to be a matter of setting up the GPIO's correctly, and reading the GPIO ports to see which buttons are depressed, joystick probably just like 4 buttons.

See also the schematic.