By
Lewin Edwards, Lewin Edwards is an embedded engineer with over 15 years experience designing embedded systems hardware, firmware, and control software., Digi-Frame Inc., Port Chester, NY, USA
Description
In this practical guide, experienced embedded engineer Lewin Edwards demonstrates faster, lower-cost methods for developing high-end embedded
systems. With today's tight schedules and lower budgets, embedded designers are under greater pressure to deliver prototypes and system
designs faster and cheaper. Edwards demonstrates how the use of the right tools and operating systems can make seemingly impossible deadlines
possible.
Designer's Guide to Embedded Systems Development shares many advanced, "in-the-trenches" design secrets to help engineers
achieve better performance on the job. In particular, it covers many of the newer design tools supported by the GPL (GNU Public License)
system. Code examples are given to provide concrete illustrations of tasks described in the text. The general procedures are applicable
to many possible projects based on any 16/32-bit microcontroller. The book covers choosing the right architecture and development hardware
to fit the project; choosing an operating system and developing a toolchain; evaluating software licenses and how they affect a project;
step-by-step building instructions for gcc, binutils, gdb and newlib for the ARM7 core used in the case study project; prototyping techniques
using a custom printed circuit board; debugging tips; and portability considerations. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all the code used
in the design examples as well as useful open-source tools for embedded design.
Audience:
Embedded systems engineers, both hardware and software; Engineering consultants; Electronics engineering students just entering the embedded job market
