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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

All the best-laid plans


As with any project, there's the inevitable divide between the intended design and how it functions in reality. Even with the best planning and bountiful experience, there will always be unforeseen or unnoticed issues. The best you can do is to be as well-prepared as possible.

The first step is to have access to all of the available information for the target platform, understand the tools that are available, and have a solid development and testing plan. We ran through many of these aspects in this book already.

In this appendix, we'll summarize a number of best practices that should help you avoid some of the more common issues.