Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C

Chapter 1 What Is Embedded Programming?

Chapter Outline

1. What’s Special About Embedded Systems? 1

   1. Embedded Design Constraints 3

   2. The Embedded Tool Chain 4

   3. OS, RTOS, or Bareback? 5

   4. Embedded Middleware 6

   5. Codevelopment with Hardware 7

   6. Debugging and Testing 8

2. OO or Structured – It’s Your Choice 9

   1. Classes 10

   2. Objects 13

   3. Polymorphism and Virtual Functions 14

   4. Subclassing 15

   5. Finite State Machines 25

3. What Did We Learn? 33

What you will learn

• Basics of embedded systems

• OO versus structured programming

• Implementing classes, inheritance, and state machines in C

This book focuses solely on embedded systems development. In doing so, it is drawing a distinction between “embedded” systems and “others.” ...