Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

Preface

Embedded systems have become increasingly popular in the last two decades thanks to the technological progress made by microelectronics manufacturers and designers, which has aimed to increase computing power and decrease the size of the logic of microprocessors and peripherals.

Designing, implementing, and integrating the software components for these systems requires a direct approach to the hardware functionalities in most cases, where tasks are implemented in a single thread and there is no operating system to provide abstractions to access CPU features and external peripherals. For this reason, embedded development is considered a domain on its own in the universe of software development, in which the developer’s approach and workflow ...