July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
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Preface to The Second Edition
Embedded computing is more important today than it was in 2000, when the first
edition of this book appeared. Embedded processors are in even more products,
ranging from toys to airplanes. Systems-on-chips now use up to hundreds of CPUs.
The cell phone is on its way to becoming the new standard computing platform.
As my column in IEEE Computer in September 2006 indicated, there are at least a
half-million embedded systems programmers in the world today, probably closer to
800,000.
In this edition I have tried to both update and revamp. One major change is
that the book now uses the TI TMS320C55x™ (C55x) DSP. I seriously