Embedded Systems Design, 2nd Edition

Design examples 379

13 Design examples

Burglar alarm system

This example describes the design and development of

an MC68008-based burglar alarm with particular reference to

the software and hardware debugging techniques that were

used. The design and debugging was performed without the

use of an emulator, the traditional development tool, and used

cross-compilers and evaluation boards instead. The design

process was carefully controlled to allow the gradual integra-

tion of the system with one unknown at a time. The decision

process behind the compiler choice, the higher level software

development and testing, software porting, hardware testing

and integration ...