REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE : A Practical Guide to Multitasking, RTOS Kernel Design, and Hardware Interfacing for Firmware Engineers
Language: English
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- Title
- REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE : A Practical Guide to Multitasking, RTOS Kernel Design, and Hardware Interfacing for Firmware Engineers
- Author
- Max E. Moffat
- Publisher
- Independently Published Aug 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
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- 9798191390314
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- 368 grams
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- 254x178x11 mm
Real-Time Embedded Systems Architecture is a practical, architecture-driven guide for firmware engineers, embedded software developers, computer engineering students, and programmers ready to move beyond basic microcontroller applications and understand how professional real-time systems are designed from the inside out.
Modern embedded devices must do far more than execute code. They must respond to interrupts within defined deadlines, coordinate multiple tasks, communicate safely between concurrent components, manage limited memory, interface efficiently with hardware, conserve power, and recover intelligently when something goes wrong. This book connects those challenges into one coherent engineering approach.
Starting with the foundations of real-time computing and microcontroller architecture, you will progress into the mechanisms that make an RTOS work: tasks and Thread Control Blocks, context switching, priority-based scheduling, synchronization, message passing, deterministic memory management, interrupt-driven drivers, DMA, low-power design, watchdog supervision, fault recovery, and reliable firmware architecture.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Distinguish hard and soft real-time requirements and reason about deterministic execution.
- Understand processor registers, memory maps, timers, interrupts, SRAM, Flash, DMA, and memory protection.
- Design multitasking firmware using tasks, priorities, scheduling policies, and context switching.
- Apply RMS, EDF, preemptive, cooperative, and round-robin scheduling concepts.
- Prevent race conditions, deadlocks, and priority inversion with appropriate synchronization techniques.
- Use mutexes, semaphores, message queues, ring buffers, event groups, and task notifications.
- Build responsive UART, SPI, and I²C driver architectures using interrupts, deferred processing, and DMA.
- Design predictable memory systems using static allocation, memory pools, stack monitoring, and protection mechanisms.
- Balance real-time responsiveness with tickless operation and low-power requirements.
- Strengthen firmware with watchdogs, fault diagnostics, defensive programming, and recovery strategies.
The journey culminates in a hands-on capstone: building a custom lightweight RTOS kernel. You will see how TCBs, ready lists, system ticks, scheduling, task stacks, context switching, IPC, memory management, hardware abstraction, and testing fit together to create a functioning real-time kernel.
Rather than teaching you to memorize one RTOS API or depend on one hardware platform, Real-Time Embedded Systems Architecture develops transferable engineering knowledge that can be applied across modern microcontrollers and embedded environments.
Whether you are learning embedded systems programming, advancing your firmware development skills, preparing for professional embedded engineering work, or seeking a deeper understanding of RTOS kernel design, this book gives you a practical foundation for thinking beyond individual functions and designing the entire system.
Build beyond the super-loop. Understand what happens beneath the RTOS API. Design firmware around timing, concurrency, hardware, and reliability.
Master the architecture that makes real-time embedded systems work.
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