Fundamentals to Embedded Software Where C and Assembly Meet

By using an embedded software context, the text introduces multi-threaded programming, preemptive and non-preemptive systems, shared resources, and scheduling, thus providing a solid foundation for subsequent courses on operating systems, real-time systems, networking, and microprocessor-based design. The text will help you: appreciate the often overlooked consequences and limitations of binary representation. implement fast real-number arithmetic using fixed-point reals instead of floating-point. reinforce your comprehension of scope, parameter passing, recursion, and memory allocation. employ features of C (such as bit-manipulation and variant access) commonly used in embedded software. write functions in Intel x86 protected mode assembly to be called from C. estimate maximum data rate and latency for various styles of I/O programming. manage multiple threads, shared resources, and critical sections. develop programming practices that avoid priority inversions, deadlocks, and shared memory problems. Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meetcomes with a CD-ROM containing all the software tools needed to build simple stand-alone embedded applications on an ordinary Pentium-class PC: a C compiler, assembler, linker, boot loader, library, and both preemptive and non-preemptive real-time kernels. Also included are major portions of the source code for a number of programming assignments found in an appendix of the text.For sophomore-level courses in Assembly Language Programming in Computer Science, Embedded Systems Design, Real-Time Analysis, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering curricula. Requires prior knowledge of C, C++, or Java. This book is intended to provide a highly motivating context in which to learn procedural programming language. Using a non-product specific approach and a programming (versus hardware) perspective, this text lays a foundation that supports the multi-threaded style of programming and high-reliability requirements of embedded software. Reflecting current industrial applications and programming practice, it focuses on the more modern 32-bit protected mode processors and on C as the dominant programming languagewith coverage of assembly and how it can be used in conjunction with, and support of, C."Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet" is a refreshing alternative to the traditional sophomore text on computer organization and assembly language programming. The text approaches assembly the way it is commonly used in practiceto implement small, fast, or special-purpose routines called from a main program written in a high-level language such as C. By using an embedded software context, the text introduces multi-threaded programming, preemptive and non-preemptive systems, shared resources, and scheduling, thus providing a solid foundation for subsequent courses on operating systems, real-time systems, networking, and microprocessor-based design. PThe text will help you: UL LIappreciate the often overlooked consequences and limitations of binary representation./LI LIimplement fast real-number arithmetic using fixed-point reals instead of floating-point./LI LIreinforce your comprehension of scope, parameter passing, recursion, and memory allocation./LI LIemploy features of C (such as bit-manipulation and variant access) commonly used in embedded software./LI LIwrite functions in Intel x86 protected mode assembly to be called from C./LI LIestimate maximum data rate and latency for various styles of I/O programming./LI LImanage multiple threads, shared resources, and critical sections./LI LIdevelop programming practices that avoid priority inversions, deadlocks, and shared memory problems./LI /UL P"Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet" comes with a CD-ROM containing all the software tools needed to build simple stand-alone embedded applications on an ordinary Pentium-class PC: a C compiler, assembler, linker, boot loader, library, and both preemptive and non-preemptive real-time kernels. Also included are major portions of the source code for a number of programming assignments found in an appendix of the text.A sophomore-level textbook on programming the myriad microprocessors that are now ubiquitous throughout modern life, tucked away in hidden places that should not even be mentioned in polite company. It lays a foundation to support the multi-threaded style of programming and high-reliability requirements of embedded software. The disk provides most of the source code for each of the programming assignments in the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)