The Art of Designing Embedded Systems

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Newnes, 3 de jul. 2008 - 312 pàgines
Jack Ganssle has been forming the careers of embedded engineers for 20+ years. He has done this with four books, over 500 articles, a weekly column, and continuous lecturing. Technology moves fast and since the first edition of this best-selling classic much has changed. The new edition will reflect the author's new and ever evolving philosophy in the face of new technology and realities. Now more than ever an overarching philosophy of development is needed before just sitting down to build an application. Practicing embedded engineers will find that Jack provides a high-level strategic plan of attack to the often times chaotic and ad hoc design and development process. He helps frame and solve the issues an engineer confronts with real-time code and applications, hardware and software coexistences, and streamlines detail management. CONTENTS: Chapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 – The ProjectChapter 3 – The CodeChapter 4 – Real TimeChapter 5 – The Real WorldChapter 6 – Disciplined DevelopmentAppendix A – A Firmware StandardAppendix B - A Simple Drawing SystemAppendix C – A Boss’s Guide to Process
  • Authored by Jack Ganssle, Tech Editor of Embedded Systems Programming and weekly column on embedded.com
  • Keep schedules in check as projects and codes grow by taking time to understand the project beforehand
  • Understand how cost/benefit coexists with design and development

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Introduction
1
The Project
7
The Code
43
Real Time
89
The Real World
183
Disciplined Development
215
A Firmware Standard
245
A Simple Drawing System
265
A Bosss Guide to Process Improvement
281
Index
295
Copyright

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Pàgina 50 - he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task." In his hand the measuring-rod was a far mightier implement than the pen. His turgid and pompous rhetoric displays itself in the introductions to the different books, where his exaggerated effort to introduce some semblance of style into his commonplace lectures on the noble principles which should...
Pàgina 15 - A single CPU manages a disparate array of sensors, switches, communications links, PWMs, and more. Dozens of tasks handle many sorts of mostly unrelated activities. A hundred thousand lines of code all linked into a single executable enslaves dozens of programmers all making changes throughout a byzantine structure no one completely comprehends. Of course development slows to a crawl.
Pàgina 15 - Communications overhead requires a bit more code so we've added 10% to the 100-KLOC base figure. The schedule collapses to 909 man-months, or 65% of that required by the monolithic version. Maybe the problem is quite orthogonal and divides neatly into many small chunks, none being particularly large. Five processors running 22 KLOC each will take 1030 manmonths, or 73% of the original, not-so-clever design.
Pàgina 130 - ... and we had to develop a feel for the fact that the answer was about 0.06 rather than 0.6 or 0.006. These requirements on our judgment made us realize two important things about engineering: first, answers are approximations and should only be reported as accurately as the input is known, and, second, magnitudes come from a feel for the problem and do not come automatically from machines or calculating contrivances.
Pàgina 15 - The product reaches consumers' hands twice as fast and development costs tumble. You're promoted and get one of those hot foreign company cars plus a slew of appreciating stock options. Being an engineer was never so good.
Pàgina 123 - This small difference might represent just a tiny change in angle. We request a read at just about the same time the data changes; our input operation strobes the capture register's clock creating a violation of set-up or hold time. Every input bit changes; each of the flip-flops inside...
Pàgina 125 - ... possible that the delays may cause the input to transition at the same time as the clock. Instant metastability. Designers are pretty careful to avoid these situations, though. Do be wary of FPGAs and other components where the delays vary depending on how the software routes the device.
Pàgina 55 - AT&T found inspections led to 14% increase in productivity and tenfold increase in quality. • HP found 80% of the errors detected during inspections were unlikely to be caught by testing. • HP, Shell Research, Bell Northern, and AT&T all found inspections 20-30 times more efficient than testing in detecting errors.
Pàgina 120 - ... bits are stored and can be read by the software at any time, with no fear of things changing between reads. Some designers tie the register's clock input to one of the port control lines. The I/O read instruction then automatically strobes data into the latch, assuming one is wise enough to insure the register latches data on the leading edge of the clock.

Sobre l'autor (2008)

Jack Ganssle has 30 years' experience developing embedded systems. He has authored two books, The Art of Programming Embedded Systems and The Art of Designing Embedded Systems, and writes a regular column in Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Michael Barr is the editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine and the principal of Netrino Consultants Network. He wrote Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++.

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