Practical Firmware Architecture : A Hands-On Guide to Building Reusable APIs, HALs, and Device Drivers
Language: English
Published by Independently Published Sep 2026, 2026
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- Title
- Practical Firmware Architecture : A Hands-On Guide to Building Reusable APIs, HALs, and Device Drivers
- Author
- Caleb Reid
- Publisher
- Independently Published Sep 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
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- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
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- 9798173397607
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- 254x178x11 mm
Practical Firmware Architecture is a hands-on guide to designing embedded software with clear boundaries between application logic, hardware, drivers, platforms, and configuration. Instead of focusing only on how individual peripherals work, this book focuses on the architectural decisions that determine whether a firmware project remains manageable as it grows.
Inside, you’ll learn how to structure firmware into reusable modules, design clean APIs, build hardware abstraction layers, develop portable device drivers, separate configuration from implementation, and create software that can be tested without always depending on physical hardware.
What You’ll Learn
- Design modular firmware structures that are easier to understand and maintain
- Create clean APIs that hide unnecessary implementation details
- Build hardware abstraction layers for different microcontrollers
- Design reusable and portable device drivers
- Work with GPIO, timers, PWM, interrupts, UART, SPI, I²C, ADC, and DAC
- Separate hardware configuration from application implementation
- Support multiple boards and microcontroller families
- Handle errors and manage driver and device state consistently
- Make firmware easier to unit test and integration test
- Use mocks and hardware fakes to test code without physical devices
- Integrate drivers with RTOS-based systems and middleware
- Build portable board support packages
- Manage firmware across multiple product variants
- Organize versions, dependencies, and build configurations
- Bring APIs, HALs, drivers, services, configuration, application logic, and testing together in a complete architecture
Rather than presenting firmware architecture as a collection of abstract rules, this book shows how the different layers fit together in practical embedded development. You’ll see how application logic can be separated from hardware-specific implementation, how drivers can be designed for reuse, and how architectural boundaries can make testing and platform changes easier to manage.
The later chapters bring these concepts together in a complete multi-board environmental monitoring project. The project demonstrates how APIs, HALs, drivers, services, configuration, application logic, and testing can work together as a coherent firmware architecture.
Who This Book Is For
This book is written for embedded software engineers, firmware developers, electronics engineers who write embedded code, IoT developers, and advanced students who want to move beyond simply making firmware work.
It is especially useful if you are:
- Building firmware for microcontrollers and embedded devices
- Maintaining a firmware codebase that has become difficult to modify
- Developing device drivers or hardware abstraction layers
- Preparing firmware to support multiple boards or microcontrollers
- Working with RTOS-based embedded applications
- Trying to make embedded software easier to test
- Developing firmware that will evolve across multiple product versions
- Studying embedded systems and want a stronger understanding of firmware architecture
- Moving from writing individual firmware features toward designing complete firmware systems
Hardware changes. Components change. Product requirements evolve. New engineers join development teams. A prototype becomes a production product.
The question is not whether firmware will eventually need to change. The question is how expensive that change will be
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