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Embedded Systems Architecture

Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

By : Daniele Lacamera
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Embedded Systems Architecture

Embedded Systems Architecture

3.8 (5)
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)
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Part 1 – Introduction to Embedded Systems Development
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Part 2 – Core System Architecture
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Part 3 – Device Drivers and Communication Interfaces
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Part 4 – Multithreading

Heap management

Safety-critical embedded systems are often designed not to implement any dynamic memory allocation. While this may sound extreme, it minimizes the impact of the most common programming mistakes in the application code, which might lead to catastrophic consequences for the running system.

On the other hand, dynamic allocation is a powerful tool because it gives complete control over the lifetime and the size of the memory blocks. Many third-party libraries designed for embedded devices expect an existing implementation of dynamic memory allocation. Dynamic memory is managed through a heap structure in memory, by keeping track of the status and the size for each allocation, incrementing the pointer to the next area of free memory, and reusing blocks that have been freed if new allocation requests are processed.

A standard programming interface for heap allocation consists of two basic functions:

void *malloc(size_t size);
void free(void *ptr);

These function...

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