Patterns in the Machine: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development

© John T. Taylor, Wayne T. Taylor 2021

J. T. Taylor, W. T. TaylorPatterns in the Machinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6440-9_1

1. Introduction

John T. Taylor¹   and Wayne T. Taylor²

(1)

Covington, GA, USA

(2)

Golden, CO, USA

 

This book is about how to be a genius—or, at least, how to design and implement software in a way that is pretty damn smart. This book is about how to build things like automated unit tests and functional simulators, which professionals in the embedded systems space hardly ever do because they feel there isn’t enough time or there aren’t enough resources in their programming environment or because there’s never been hardware like theirs on the planet before. A lot of developers think it’s unwise to write extensive code before ...