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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

By : Maya Posch
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Book Image

Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

5 (1)
By: Maya Posch

Overview of this book

C++ is a great choice for embedded development, most notably, because it does not add any bloat, extends maintainability, and offers many advantages over different programming languages. Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17 will show you how C++ can be used to build robust and concurrent systems that leverage the available hardware resources. Starting with a primer on embedded programming and the latest features of C++17, the book takes you through various facets of good programming. You’ll learn how to use the concurrency, memory management, and functional programming features of C++ to build embedded systems. You will understand how to integrate your systems with external peripherals and efficient ways of working with drivers. This book will also guide you in testing and optimizing code for better performance and implementing useful design patterns. As an additional benefit, you will see how to work with Qt, the popular GUI library used for building embedded systems. By the end of the book, you will have gained the confidence to use C++ for embedded programming.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Source code


This application has been implemented using the Qt framework, as a GUI application, so that we also get a graphical interface for ease of debugging. This debugging UI was designed using the Qt Designer of the Qt Creator IDE as a single UI file.

We start by creating an instance of the GUI application:

#include "mainwindow.h" 
#include <QApplication> 
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { 
    QApplication a(argc, argv); 
    MainWindow w; 
    w.show(); 
     
    return a.exec(); 
} 

This creates an instance of the MainWindow class in which we have implemented the application, along with an instance of QApplication, which is a wrapper class used by the Qt framework.

Next, this is the MainWindow header:

#include <QMainWindow> 
 
#include <QAudioRecorder> 
#include <QAudioProbe> 
#include <QMediaPlayer> 
 
 
namespace Ui { 
    class MainWindow; 
} 
 
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow { 
    Q_OBJECT 
     
public: 
    explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent...