Digital Interface Design and Application

Preface

This book aims to provide a justified and well founded cornerstone in the development of techniques required to establish reliable interface designs used when embedded computers are deployed in any demanding application. The book will focus on the ARM Microprocessor, which is now a leading technology in the electronics industry and offers a wide range of performance optimised features for particular applications. By using simple practical examples, the link between the embedded hardware and the programming task will be clearly developed so that interface design can be undertaken with confidence and the resulting systems will exhibit high reliability.

ARM Microprocessors have developed quickly over the last few years and have been very widely adopted by the electronics industry, finding pervasive applications in mobile phones, sensor networks and server systems to pick just a few examples. Applications will continue to develop and become more diverse over the years to come so a wide knowledge background in interface design will be highly valuable.

This book will bring together aspects of digital hardware, interface design and software integration (not otherwise available in a single text) in a progressive arrangement to promote thorough comprehension of the examples. In particular, the intimate linkage between low and high level languages (HLLs) will be explained so that the advantages of optimisation can be considered carefully. In many cases, the HLL approach will ...