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Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

By : Daniele Lacamera
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Book Image

Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Daniele Lacamera

Overview of this book

Embedded Systems Architecture begins with a bird’s-eye view of embedded development and how it differs from the other systems that you may be familiar with. This book will help you get the hang of the internal working of various components in real-world systems. You’ll start by setting up a development environment and then move on to the core system architectural concepts, exploring system designs, boot-up mechanisms, and memory management. As you progress through the topics, you’ll explore the programming interface and device drivers to establish communication via TCP/IP and take measures to increase the security of IoT solutions. Finally, you’ll be introduced to multithreaded operating systems through the development of a scheduler and the use of hardware-assisted trusted execution mechanisms. With the help of this book, you will gain the confidence to work with embedded systems at an architectural level and become familiar with various aspects of embedded software development on microcontrollers—such as memory management, multithreading, and RTOS—an approach oriented to memory isolation.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction to Embedded Systems Development
4
Part 2 – Core System Architecture
8
Part 3 – Device Drivers and Communication Interfaces
13
Part 4 – Multithreading

Summary

This chapter has given us an overview of the design of machine-to-machine distributed systems and IoT services, including connected embedded devices, with a focus on security elements that are too often overlooked or underestimated in embedded development. The technology proposed allows full, professional-grade, secure, and fast TCP/IP connectivity on very small targets and uses state-of-the-art technology, such as the most recent version of the TLS cipher suites. Several approaches have been considered, both in terms of hardware and software technologies available for microcontroller-based targets, for a broader view of the technologies, protocols, and security algorithms available for building distributed embedded systems.

The next chapter will illustrate the multitasking possibilities of modern embedded microcontrollers by explaining how to write a small scheduler for Cortex-M microprocessors from scratch, and will summarize the key roles of a real-time operating system...