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Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

By : Igor Viarheichyk
Book Image

Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

By: Igor Viarheichyk

Overview of this book

Developing applications for embedded systems may seem like a daunting task as developers face challenges related to limited memory, high power consumption, and maintaining real-time responses. This book is a collection of practical examples to explain how to develop applications for embedded boards and overcome the challenges that you may encounter while developing. The book will start with an introduction to embedded systems and how to set up the development environment. By teaching you to build your first embedded application, the book will help you progress from the basics to more complex concepts, such as debugging, logging, and profiling. Moving ahead, you will learn how to use specialized memory and custom allocators. From here, you will delve into recipes that will teach you how to work with the C++ memory model, atomic variables, and synchronization. The book will then take you through recipes on inter-process communication, data serialization, and timers. Finally, you will cover topics such as error handling and guidelines for real-time systems and safety-critical systems. By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in building robust and secure embedded applications with C++.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Microcontroller Programming

In previous chapters, we mostly covered topics applicable to relatively powerful embedded systems that have megabytes of memory and run Linux operating systems. Now, we are going to explore the other side of the embedded system spectrum—microcontrollers.

As we discussed in the introduction, microcontrollers are commonly used to perform simple, often real-time tasks, such as collecting data or providing a high-level API to a specific device. Microcontrollers are inexpensive, consume little energy, and can work in a wide range of environmental conditions, making them a perfect choice for IoT applications.

The other side of their low cost is their capabilities. Normally, they have onboard memory that is measured in kilobytes and do not have hardware memory mapping. They do not run any operating system at all, or run a simple real-time operating...