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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

By : Maya Posch
5 (1)
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

Embedded IDEs and frameworks


While the application development for SoCs tends to be quite similar to desktop and server environments, as we saw in the previous chapter, MCU development requires a far more intimate knowledge of the hardware that one is developing for, sometimes down to the exact bits to set in a particular register.

There exist some frameworks that seek to abstract away such details for particular MCU series, so that one can develop for a common API without having to worry about how it is implemented on a specific MCU. Of these, the Arduino framework is the most well-known outside of industrial applications, though there are also a number of commercial frameworks that are certified for production use.

Frameworks such as the Advanced Software Framework (ASF) for AVR and SAM MCUs can be used with a variety of IDEs, including Atmel Studio, Keil µVision, and IAR Embedded Workbench.

A non-exhaustive list of popular embedded IDEs follows:

Name

Company

License

Platforms

Notes

Atmel Studio...