Foreword to the First Edition
When Tammy Noergaard first told me she wanted to write a soup-to-nuts book about building embedded systems I tried to dissuade her. This field is so vast, requiring insight into electronics, logic circuits, computer design, software engineering, C, assembly, and far more. But as we talked she showed me how the industry’s literature lacks a definitive work on the subject. I warned her of the immensity of the project.
A year and many discussions later Fedex arrived with the review copy of this book. At approximately 700 pages it’s appropriately twice the size of almost any other opus on the subject. The book you’re holding truly is “A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers.” Sure, the minutiae of programming ...
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