Embedded Software, Second Edition: The Works by Colin Walls

by Colin Walls

The author offers insight from his quarter century of design experience, covering a plethora of major concerns in an easy-to-reference essay format that provides the reader with detailed tips, techniques, and rigorous explanations of technologies. Contributions from other well-known designers in the field offer additional perspectives on everything from exotic memories to USB software. This one book has an amazing breadth of coverage, undertaking all the key subjects embedded engineers need to understand, including Design and Development, Programming, Languages including C/C++ and UML, Real Time Operating Systems and more. For engineers who are looking to broaden their professional skill-sets in order to advance, as well as those "newbies" just entering the field, this comprehensive new reference is a must-have.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Elie De Brauwer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book for the second time, it's a collection of articles written by the author, or contributed by others. The book dates from 2006 but quite some articles date from the 90's. Some articles covering foundations are still applicable today but some others are becoming a bit dated.