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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

Text editors versus integrated environments

While mostly a matter of developer preferences, the debate is still open in the embedded community between those who use a standalone text editor and those who prefer to have all the components of the toolchain integrated into one GUI.

Modern IDEs incorporate tools for the following tasks:

  • Managing the components of the project
  • Quickly accessing all the files for editing as well as extensions to upload the software on the board
  • Starting a debugging session with a single click

Microcontroller manufacturers often distribute their development kits along with IDEs that make it easy to access advanced features that are specific to the microcontroller, thanks to preconfigured setups and wizards facilitating the creation of new projects. Most IDEs include widgets to automatically generate the setup code for pin multiplexing for specific microcontrollers, starting from a graphical interface. Some of them even offer simulators...