Fast and Effective Embedded Systems Design, 2nd Edition

Introduction

It's now just 4 years since the first edition of this book was published. Microprocessors are of course still everywhere, providing “intelligence” in cars, mobile phones, household and office equipment, TVs and entertainment systems, medical products, aircraft—the list seems endless. Those everyday products, where a microprocessor is hidden inside to add intelligence, are called embedded systems. It is still not so long ago when designers of embedded systems had to be electronics experts, or software experts, or both. Nowadays, with user-friendly and sophisticated building blocks available for our use, both the specialist and the beginner can quickly engage in successful embedded system design. One such building block is the mbed ...