April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
33h 55m
English
This is a monumental work. It’s probably the most comprehensive book about embedded systems to date. And it is desperately needed.
Firmware is getting big. Some estimates peg firmware at 80% of the development cost of modern products. Whereas a few years ago a system with a few hundred thousand lines of code was considered huge, today it’s common to find multi-megaline code bases. Smart phones use tens of millions of lines and are spectacularly complex. Consumers figure 70% of the value of an automobile comes from the electronics – they’re buying code more than engines and wheels.
Since the introduction of the first microprocessor forty years ago the standard way to build firmware ...
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