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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

Maintainability


In the preceding sections, we have seen a number of features that C++ offers, and the viability of using them on a resource-limited platform. A big advantage of using C++ is the reduction in code size you can accomplish through the use of templates, along with the organization and modularization of a code base using classes, namespaces, and the like.

By striving for a more modular approach in your code, with clear interfaces between modules, it becomes more feasible to reuse code between projects. It also simplifies the maintenance of code by making the function of a particular section of code clearer and providing clear targets for unit and integration testing.