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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About This Book and the Accompanying CD-ROM | |
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| A First Look at Embedded Systems | |
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| Examples of Embedded Systems | |
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| Typical Hardware | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Hardware Fundamentals for the Software Engineer | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Gates | |
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| A Few Other Basic Considerations | |
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| Timing Diagrams | |
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| Memory | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Advanced Hardware Fundamentals | |
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| Microprocessors | |
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| Buses | |
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| Direct Memory Access | |
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| Interrupts | |
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| Other Common Parts | |
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| Built-Ins on the Microprocessor | |
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| Conventions Used on Schematics | |
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| A Sample Schematic | |
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| A Last Word about Hardware | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Interrupts | |
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| Microprocessor Architecture | |
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| Interrupt Basics | |
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| The Shared-Data Problem | |
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| Interrupt Latency | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Survey of Software Architectures | |
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| Round-Robin | |
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| Round-Robin with Interrupts | |
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| Function-Queue-Scheduling Architecture | |
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| Real-Time Operating System Architecture | |
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| Selecting an Architecture | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Introduction to Real-Time Operating Systems | |
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| Tasks and Task States | |
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| Tasks and Data | |
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| Semaphores and Shared Data | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| More Operating System Services | |
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| Message Queues, Mailboxes, and Pipes | |
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| Timer Functions | |
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| Events | |
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| Memory Management | |
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| Interrupt Routines in an RTOS Environment | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Basic Design Using a Real-Time Operating System | |
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| Overview | |
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| Principles | |
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| An Example | |
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| Encapsulating Semaphores and Queues | |
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| Hard Real-Time Scheduling Considerations | |
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| Saving Memory Space | |
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| Saving Power | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Embedded Software Development Tools | |
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| Host and Target Machines | |
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| Linker/Locators for Embedded Software | |
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| Getting Embedded Software into the Target System | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Debugging Techniques | |
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| Testing on Your Host Machine | |
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| Instruction Set Simulators | |
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| The assert Macro | |
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| Using Laboratory Tools | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| An Example System | |
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| What the Program Does | |
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| Environment in Which the Program Operates | |
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| A Guide to the Source Code | |
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| Source Code | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index. 020161569XT04062001 | |