"Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems" - читать интересную книгу автора (Li Qing, Yao Carolyn)

Preface

Embedded systems are omnipresent and play significant roles in modern-day life. Embed ded systems are also diverse and can be found in consumer electronics, such as digital cameras, DVD players and printers; in industrial robots; in advanced avionics, such as missile guidance systems and flight control systems; in medical equipment, such as cardiac arrhythmia monitors and cardiac pacemakers; in automotive designs, such as fuel injection systems and auto-braking systems. Embedded systems have significantly improved the way we live today-and will continue to change the way we live tomorrow.

Programming embedded systems is a special discipline, and demands that embedded sys tems developers have working knowledge of a multitude of technology areas. These areas range from low-level hardware devices, compiler technology, and debugging tech niques, to the inner workings of real-time operating systems and multithreaded applica tion design. These requirements can be overwhelming to programmers new to the embedded world. The learning process can be long and stressful. As such, I felt com pelled to share my knowledge and experiences through practical discussions and illustrations in jumpstarting your embedded systems projects.

Some books use a more traditional approach, focusing solely on programming low-level drivers and software that control the underlying hardware devices. Other books provide a high-level abstract approach using object-oriented methodologies and modeling lan guages. This book, however, concentrates on bridging the gap between the higher-level abstract modeling concepts and the lower-level fundamental programming aspects of embedded systems development. The discussions carried throughout this book are based on years of experience gained from design and implementation of commercial embedded systems, lessons learnt from previous mistakes, wisdom passed down from others, and results obtained from academic research. These elements join together to form useful insights, guidelines, and recommendations that you can actually use in your real-time embedded systems projects.

This book provides a solid understanding of real-time embedded systems with detailed practical examples and industry knowledge on key concepts, design issues, and solu tions. This book supplies a rich set of ready-to-use embedded design building blocks that can accelerate your development efforts and increase your productivity.

I hope that Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems will become a key reference for you as you embark upon your development endeavors.

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