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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

You're reading from   Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17 Create versatile and robust embedded solutions for MCUs and RTOSes with modern C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629300
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Fundamentals - Embedded programming and the role of C++
2. What Are Embedded Systems? FREE CHAPTER 3. C++ as an Embedded Language 4. Developing for Embedded Linux and Similar Systems 5. Resource-Restricted Embedded Systems 6. Example - Soil Humidity Monitor with Wi-Fi 7. Section 2: Testing, Monitoring
8. Testing OS-Based Applications 9. Testing Resource-Restricted Platforms 10. Example - Linux-Based Infotainment System 11. Example - Building Monitoring and Control 12. Section 3: Integration with other tools and frameworks
13. Developing Embedded Systems with Qt 14. Developing for Hybrid SoC/FPGA Systems 15. Best Practices 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

RTOS usage

With the limited resources available on the average MCU, and the generally fairly straightforward process loop in the applications that run on them, it is hard to make a case for using an RTOS on these MCUs. It's not until one has to do complicated resource and task management that it becomes attractive to use an RTOS in order to save development time.

The benefit of using an RTOS thus lies mostly in preventing one from having to reinvent the wheel. This is however something that has to be decided on a case-by-case basis. For most projects, having to integrate an RTOS into the development toolchain is more likely than an unrealistic idea that would add more to the workload than it would lighten it.

For projects where one is, for example, trying to balance CPU time and system resources between different communication and storage interfaces, as well as a user interface...

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