The Firmware Handbook [Paperback]

The Firmware Handbook?provides a comprehensive reference for firmware developers looking to increase their skills and productivity. It addresses each critical step of the development process in detail, including how to optimize hardware design for better firmware. Topics covered include real-time issues, interrupts and ISRs, memory management (including Flash memory), handling both digital and analog peripherals, communications interfacing, math subroutines, error handling, design tools, and troubleshooting and debugging.

This book is not for the beginner, but rather is an in-depth, comprehensive one-volume reference that addresses all the major issues in firmware design and development, including the pertinent hardware issues.

Included CD-Rom contains all the source code used in the design examples, so engineers can easily use it in their own designsIntroduction; Hardware Design for Better Firmware; Firmware Design for Better Hardware; Finite State Machines; Real-time Issues; Interrupts and ISRs; Memory; RAM Cost; Memory; RAM Cost; Handling Digital Peripherals; Handling Analog Peripherals; Communications; Math; Error Handling; Tools; DebuggingMaster the complex world of firmware programming and troubleshooting with this comprehensive, practical reference written by the leader in the field!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++.This handbook will be the standard reference in the filCD