Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet - Softcover

Lewis, Daniel W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130615897 ISBN 13: 9780130615893

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For sophomore-level courses in Assembly Language Programming in Computer Science, Embedded Systems Design, Real-Time Analysis, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering curricula. Requires prior knowledge of C, C++, or Java.

This book is intended to provide a highly motivating context in which to learn procedural programming language. Using a non-product specific approach and a programming (versus hardware) perspective, this text lays a foundation that supports the multi-threaded style of programming and high-reliability requirements of embedded software. Reflecting current industrial applications and programming practice, it focuses on the more modern 32-bit protected mode processors and on C as the dominant programming language―with coverage of assembly and how it can be used in conjunction with, and support of, C.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet is a refreshing alternative to the traditional sophomore text on computer organization and assembly language programming. The text approaches assembly the way it is commonly used in practice¾to implement small, fast, or special-purpose routines called from a main program written in a high-level language such as C. By using an embedded software context, the text introduces multi-threaded programming, preemptive and non-preemptive systems, shared resources, and scheduling, thus providing a solid foundation for subsequent courses on operating systems, real-time systems, networking, and microprocessor-based design.

The text will help you:

• appreciate the often overlooked consequences and limitations of binary representation.
• implement fast real-number arithmetic using fixed-point reals instead of floating-point.
• reinforce your comprehension of scope, parameter passing, recursion, and memory allocation.
• employ features of C (such as bit-manipulation and variant access) commonly used in embedded software.
• write functions in Intel x86 protected mode assembly to be called from C.
• estimate maximum data rate and latency for various styles of I/O programming.
• manage multiple threads, shared resources, and critical sections.
• develop programming practices that avoid priority inversions, deadlocks, and shared memory problems.

Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet comes with a CD-ROM containing all the software tools needed to build simple stand-alone embedded applications on an ordinary Pentium-class PC: a C compiler, assembler, linker, boot loader, library, and both preemptive and non-preemptive real-time kernels. Also included are major portions of the source code for a number of programming assignments found in an appendix of the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130615897
• ISBN 13: 9780130615893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266