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Embedded Systems Architecture

You're reading from   Embedded Systems Architecture Explore architectural concepts, pragmatic design patterns, and best practices to produce robust systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832502
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniele Lacamera Daniele Lacamera
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Preface 1. Embedded Systems – A Pragmatic Approach FREE CHAPTER 2. Work Environment and Workflow Optimization 3. Architectural Patterns 4. The Boot-Up Procedure 5. Memory Management 6. General-Purpose Peripherals 7. Local Bus Interfaces 8. Low-Power Optimizations 9. Distributed Systems and IoT Architecture 10. Parallel Tasks and Scheduling 11. Embedded Operating Systems 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Source code organization

The code base should contain all the source code, third-party libraries, data, scripts, and automations needed to build the final image. It is a good idea to keep self-contained libraries in separate directories, so that they can be easily updated to newer versions by replacing the subdirectory itself. Makefiles and other scripts can be placed in the project's root directory. Application code should be short and synthetic, and access the modules abstracting the macro functionalities. Functional modules should describe a process while hiding the details of the underlying implementation, such as reading data from a sensor after it has been properly sampled and processed. Aiming for small, self-contained, and adequately abstracted modules also makes the components of the architecture easier to test. Keeping the majority of the logic for the application...

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