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An Embedded Software Primer |
Author: David E. Simon
Published: 1999-08-15 |
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 Great textbook for an "Intro to Embedded Systems" couse
I developed an introductory embedded systems class for university graduate students, and searched for a book that would provide both introductory and low-level information, with the assumption that students may come from different backgrounds in engineering and computer science. Based on my own industry experience, I wanted a book that started at the metal and explained the fundamentals so students learned from the ground up. This book fit the bill. It begins with the important hardware concepts and ties them directly to their applicability to embedded systems, and then jumps into timing diagrams, interrupts, buses and memory in a straightforward manner.
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br /The book continues with different types of software architectures and operating system services, with hard examples that are easy to understand. A very important chapter covers debugging techniques. Since a large chunk of time is spend debugging embedded systems, it is important to see that directly addressed in an introductory book. The only topic missing was really basic software programming, which is necessary for those with little software experience. But this does not detract from the topics covered.
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br /I taught the chapters of this book a little out of order, addressing the development tools and debugging techniques (later chapters) earlier in the process. Simon provides a chapter dependency flow chart that assists in different learning paths.
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br /The book was a wonderful launching point for tying learning with designing embedded systems in industry. It was well received by the students, who had had absolutely no idea what an embedded system was, even though we discovered together that they all owned tons of them.
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br /Very well done!
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br /Lisa Simone If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?: Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed: Technical Mysteries for Engineers
Embedded Software
This is an awesome book for anyone who is new to embedded software development. I used it while taking a class at UCIrvine and it was an interesting book and not hard to read, very reader friendly. Definetly a good book for anyone starting a career in embedded software development.
 Excellent intro to the fundamentals
Many people would argue that the material in this text is far too basic. I think this is precisely the strength of this book. I enjoyed reading this book despite being an experienced embedded developer.
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br /There is no one-stop-shop in embedded software development. If you adopt it as a career, there are many things you will need to learn over time: architectures of multiple processors, a variety development tools, RTOSes and a lot more. For the most part the book stays clear of the specifics of all of these. However, it does teach you the fundamentals of all of them. The information about hardware interfacing, processors, interrupts, shared data problems, RTOS based design, and common mistakes is sufficient to get a new-comer started quickly. In my early days, I spent hours, sometimes days, chasing bugs similar to those this book teaches you to avoid.
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br /In short, the book is just what says it is: "What you need to know to get started with embedded systems development". I would highly recommend it to any newcomer to this field.
Dated, but still valuable
This book hits most of the major points in embedded software programming, clearly and concisely. It it almost 10 years old, though, and some of the discussion shows it (especially hardware). It would be great if they would do a second edition, as the book is a great read otherwise.
microC/OS is a good example of small operating system.
I think microC/OS is a good example of small operating systems such as TOPPERS/ssp(smallest set profile). This book describe Hardware fundamentals for the software engineer (chapter 1) for examples VCC(Voltage Connected to Collector), And gates and Or gates and D Flip Flops.
br /Advanced Hardware Fundamentals(chapter 2) describe Busses, DMA(Direct Memory Access), and Interrupts(also in chapter 4).
br /Survey of software architecutres(chapter 5) is important articles.
br /Introduction to real-time operating systems(chapter 6) include semaphores that is traditional technology.
br /All of the contents are good for primer. In the CD-ROM there are answer of the problems(exercise or practice) and additional programs.
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br /microC/OS is made by Jean J. Labrosse.
br /He make a new book, microC/OS-II.
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