Embedded Books

As a former student of Professor James Peckol and having read portions of this book in my spare time, I can assure any prospective students looking for a secondary reference that this is book to get!

This book provides the design processes and methodologies used in the real world (I am now in industry so I can attest to this) with some great examples. If you can take his class this is the next best thing...

I used portions of this text during several embedded systems courses with Dr Peckol and it truly is an excellent resource and tool for an embedded engineer. It is a current, detailed, yet easily understandable look into all the aspects involved with embedded systems. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in this field or actively studying or working with embedded systems as you will no doubt benefit from Dr Peckol's insight.

I have used this text as reference to design and implement numerous embedded systems - from a simple numbers game to a wireless glove guitar.

The materials presented in this book walks you through the entire hardware/software thought process that is applicable to any engineering design. The book stresses the importance of developing a modular high-level design before any implementation - and to consider things such as use cases,extreme cases, scalability, performance, and safety. The book also goes over the importance of documentation - how to properly read and write design specifications/requirements, block diagrams, timing diagrams, etc.

In addition, the book covers the nitty-gritty details of digital implementation - from basic boolean algebra to complex kernel programming. The book also covers debugging/testing processes and common mistakes to avoid in embedded system development - backed with real-life examples. Finally, sample projects included in the book allow the reader to see and implement projects on their own.

The writing style makes the text an easy-read and the numerous diagrams and examples solidifies the concepts presented.

I highly recommend this book to any embedded systems engineer.

This text book is insightful and extremely useful for faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike in computer sciences. Up to date with much relevant information, presented in a detailed and articulate manner.

Great book with several examples of using UML.

It is of great help if one needs to get some practical, hands on experience, since it provides detailed information related to UML's usage (the book presents two pretty complete examples - Coyote Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Roadrunner Traffic Light Controller). I'd say it is invaluable to be used with other theoretical books on UML.

It presents Harmony (Douglass and Hoffman's Systems and Software Engineering Process) and the accompanying CD has Rhapsody, a good modeling tool, along with all examples used throughout the book.

I recommend it for both students and practitioners.

Hope this helps!

The many examples of UML are perhaps the best feature of the book. They give you practical insight into applying the UML diagrams. And may well be easier to follow than to look at the formal UML specs.

For added motivation, the examples are all drawn from designing embedded systems. When, for example, you might see a state diagram, with all the states laid out. In general, UML is not confined to this field. Any given example could easily be re-imagined, with the UML boxes redone for other fields.

The format of having questions with comprehensive answers will be very helpful to some readers. Most books on UML simply don't bother doing this. Which might be valid for experienced programmers. But for neophytes, this book could be a better read.

If you design and develop Real-Time and Embedded Systems, this book is absolutely a must, as well as "Real-Time Design Patterns" by the same author.
Perhaps the two case studies treated in the book are not the best choice the author could make. Nevertheless, these books are corner-stones for model-driven design

I haven't had this book long, but it seems to provide an overall approach to using UML in several RT systems. Several of the example "systems" are used in the models presented througut the book. It goes through the examples systems for requirements analysis and modeling. It's a problem/answer style "textbook". It provides a brief introduction to UML in the initial chapter, which might not be enough if you are fairly new to modeling or the use of tools such as Rose, RMS, Rhapsody, or EA. The book contains a CD that has a demo version of Rhapsody that says it can generate code for an ARM9 target, for which it includes the Keil toolset and target simulator. It's a fairly readable book, even if you don't do all the examples and just look at the answers.

This book provides a highly readable framework which connects all the storage technologies that we use in today's gadgets.
It covers the principles and implementation of disk, optical and solid state storage in a wide renge of devices from GPS devices to DVR's.

Data storage is one of the least-understood, most undervalued and poorly publicized technologies of modern times.
Perhaps the industry has been so busy creating all this magic that we haven't taken the time to secure appropriate media coverage.

It's refreshing to see a broad view and Tom Coughlin presents technical descriptions, market data and real applications in a highly readable way.
My personal favorites are the block diagrams and internal photos of devices and systems.

The technical level of this book is a good match for a range of audiences including engineering, marketing and sales people. Students will also find it a valuable map to a bewildering complexity of concepts.
It provides enough technical detail to grasp how these things actually work, while avoiding mathematics and simultaneously positioning the technologies in an articulate and interesting way.

I am the author of this book. I wrote this book to fill several needs that I thought weren't well satisfied by other books now available. First I wanted to provide a good review of how various storage devices common in consumer devices work and how they differ from each other. My intention was to make an accessible book that could be used by technical readers as well as in an educational setting.

I then wanted to create a digital storage hierarchy for consumer electronics as a guide to which storage device or devices should be used for various consumer applications. Rules for the choice and integration of digital storage in consumer devices are laid out for the reader/designer.

Sections explore the design of digital storage in both mobile and static consumer devices. These sections are well illustrated by block diagrams and pictures of torn-down products showing the design and digital storage integration.

I also explore the drivers for digital storage growth in consumer applications and how those will change with the growth of richer user generated as well as commercial content, with changing storage devices and with entirely new applications. These new applications will be enabled by new digital storage technology as well as advances in mobile power, networking and processing power.

Looking into the future consumer devices are described that will cause huge growth of user generated content in the home as well as sharing and social networking driving increased storage demand as folks throughout the net share their experiences and content. As the amount and complexity of personal and commercial content increases there will be an increasing need for organizing and indexing this material (automated metadata generation) as well as reducing the physical complexity of managing content across a great many devices in the home. The book suggests how these challenges can be met.

Finally I wanted to provide the reader resources to explore these topics further. I also include information on various trade and standards groups working on all aspects of digital storage and consumer electronics. I enjoyed writing this book and hope that readers and educators will find this book useful. Thank you for reading this review and I hope that you will enjoy the book as well.

Tom Coughlin is an acknowledged authority on data storage and a respected presenter on storage and storage networking technology at conferences and events worldwide. For the past ten years, the focus of data storage has been on large data center system storage area networks (SANs) based on Fibre Channel. As with many high-end technologies, however, enterprise-class applications eventually trickle down to the small business market and eventually to useful consumer products. Essentially, the large enterprises which have the most immediate need pay for the research and development of new technologies, with the benefits eventually spreading to a much broader class of users.

Having tracked and contributed to (he has six patents relating to storage) this development over the past 25 years, Tom Coughlin is well positioned to examine the diversity of storage technologies that have evolved for consumer-level products. Minaturized hard disks, optical storage, solid state memory devices and flash technology are enabling new consumer products that were inconceivable a few decades ago. Digital storage for MP3 players, video players, digital photography and other products are empowering consumers by allowing them to tailor their media to their own tastes and to have it constantly available.

Although this book has substantial technical content for interested engineers, it also provides lucid explanations of digital storage technologies that will be of interest to non-technical readers as well. This book is Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Recommended Reading for anyone wanting to under the next large wave of digital storage applications.

As a recent graduate of a Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology who does both individual, psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy as well as family therapy, in a public mental health clinic, I found Dr. Gerson's book to be extremely helpful. Dr. Gerson is one of those rare clnicians who are able to write about clinical work in a very alive, thought-provoking manner. In this book Dr. Gerson both delineates the fields of psychoanalysis and family therapy extremely clearly. More importantly, however, she conceptualizes an innovative, integrative model for thinking about the relationships between the two modalities. The book can be appreciated by people on different levels, from extremely senior analysts and family therapists, to more neophyte therapists, to graduate students in any clinical field. I highly recommend it.

in just the way I would like to be told--a highly literate and accessible book, full of stimulating vignettes about real families, that leaves me (a psychotherapist working only with individuals) feeling I finally have a useful map of the famly therapy world. Dr. Gerson is able to explain family therapy to someone who really doesn't know much about it, and moreover to explain the approaches of the different schools of family therapy. She also nimbly travels back and forth between the points of view of the family therapist and the therapist working with individuals--making it very easy on this reader, as she raises and answers my own questions, and many I wouldn't have thought of.

As an educated layperson with a longtime interest in psychology, I found the Embedded Self to be one of the best books in the field I have ever encountered. Gerson gives a fascinating overview of family therapy and shows how psychoanalysis can provide a meaningful lens into family dynamics. I found Gerson's approach to theory be that rare combination of high level scholarship with lucid writing and explication. I think this book will be appreciated by professionals, students, and the lay populace alike. Highly recommended.

Excellent book! Real-to-life, creative thinking, lessons build upon themselves as you go through the book. It mirrored some of the things I've been through during 20+ years of HW/SW debug and Customer Support roles. I HIGHLY recommend this book and feel it
should be required reading either during school or as new employees in relevant positions.

I loved reading this book. I learned a lot about debugging and thought the "novel" (in both senses of the word) format was great. In addition to being a good engineer, the author handled the characterization and plot lines very well. As an E.E. and also a big fan of reading mystery novels, I thought it was a satisfying and unique experience to do both at once! It's so rare that the insider view of what being an engineer is like is presented like this--the emotional content of being an engineer and being faced with the kinds of problems that come up every day. My hat's off to the author!

Very intriguing book that reveals some of the experiences of young engineers in the field. It is a good guidance that takes you by the hand walks you through struggles, and shares some of the common frustration feelings that the engineering carrier exposes you to. It ought to be read by students who are hesitating about studying engineering and recently graduates that do not know what to expect from the field. The book itself is more than a text book and should be considered as an alternative to write engineering books. I really enjoyed trying to solve the mysteries while I was reading.

There are many great examples of basic image processing techniques in this book. Topics like Image Filtering, Edge Detection and also some Wavelets. There is both theory and detailed examples which really helps when trying to get the DSP in a symbiotic relationship with Matlab, CodeComposer Studio and MS Visual Studio.

There is a logical flow in how information is presented. First a basic description of the algorithm. Second some Matlab or pseudo-code. Then third he describes exactly how to implement it on the c6x dsp. Not only are there implementation details but also interfacing explanation for both Matlab and Visual Studio.

Overall this is an excellent book for getting a project up and running in a timely fashion.

This is an extremely well laid out and understandable text. The coding examples are easy to understand and can be easily demonstrated on the TI DSK's. As a current TI employee with little experience with the C6x line of DSP's, Qureshi's book allowed me to learn a large amount of image processing background in a short time while becoming familiar with the workings of Code Composer Studio and the DSP. The book starts very simply and has clear instructions on how to obtain the tools to run all of the code samples on real DSPs.

Starting with an overview of the tools involved and the C6x architecture, Qureshi moves into simple image processing concepts, such as contrast stretching and window/level processing. After clearly explaining the concept and the implementation, the reader is led through the process of optimizing the code for the DSP environment. Later topics, such as edge detection and wavelets leave the reader with a clear understanding of the fundamentals of image processing, as well as code examples that make implementation a breeze.

Overall, an excellently written book and a must for anyone interested in image processing, whether on TI DSPs or not.

A handy source for definitions of the words used by embedded systems designers on the job. Having served my time as an EE/hardware designer, I can confirm the technical depth is accurate. And now that I'm the manager of a team that develops firmware for real-time systems, I'm finding this dictionary helps me communicate better with my engineers.

It's helpful that this one book spans the areas of hardware and software, real-time and embedded, and project management. Since buying it I've been keeping it handy, right on my desk. I'm back on Amazon today ordering copies for the engineers on my team. The book's figures, code listings, equations, etc. should hopefully make their work easier. And we'll finally be able to communicate better about what needs to be done.

Very few people are comfortable admiting that they don't understand something. As a teacher, I deal with this all the time. As a former Engineering Manager, I know first-hand that an engineer is usually very reluctant to admit that they don't understand what you are talking about.

As with most engineering disciplines, embedded systems designers have their own language. What we didn't have, until now, was a dictionary for the language. "Embedded Systems Dictionary" is the book that every Embedded Systems Engineer should have at their desk, even if they cover it in a plain brown wrapper.

As with any dictionary, you will not get an extensive discourse on a word or term that is puzzling you. However, you will get a really good starting point so that you can do some extensive research later. In fact, I noticed that a number of the entries also included references as well.

As I read through the book I was really impressed by the completeness of it. I was able to come up with only one term, "n-wire", that wasn't included included.

Finally, two very minor quibbles. I found a few explanations that were as arcane as the concept that they were trying to define ( see "H-infinity filter" ) and a few that were so basic ( "average" ) you have to wonder.

In summary, this is a much-needed text for a technical subject area that has more than its share of jargon. I highly recommend it.

This report takes the view that information technology (IT) is on the verge of another revolution, driven by the increasing capabilities and ever declining costs of computing and communications. IT is being embedded into a growing range of physical devices linked together through networks and will become ever more pervasive as the component technologies become smaller, faster, and cheaper. These networked systems of embedded computers, referred to by this report as EmNets, have the potential to change radically the way people interact with their environment by linking together a range of devices and sensors that will allow information to be collected, shared, and processed in unprecedented ways. EmNets could be implemented as a kind of digital nervous system to enable instrumentation of all sorts of spaces. EmNets are expected be employed in personal monitoring strategies (both defense related and civilian), combining information from sensors on and within a person with information from laboratory tests and other sources; and EmNets will dramatically affect scientific data collection capabilities, ranging from new techniques for precision agriculture and biotechnological research to detailed environmental and pollution monitoring.
The report expects EmNets to quite possibly dwarf previous milestones in the information revolution. It sees IT eventually becoming an invisible component of almost everything in everyone's surroundings. This 236-page report explores the potential of EmNets and the research challenges they present. It describes the many ways in which these emerging networks operate under unique constraints not present in more traditional distributed systems such as the Internet. A comprehensive, systems-oriented research agenda is presented along with recommendations to major federal funding agencies.

Prognostication is a tough business to be in. The National
Research Council is routinely put into that position nevertheless--
and we're better off for it. This work, "Embedded, Everywhere", is
a work from some of the top people in Computer Science today and
attempts to identify the issues relating to a world saturated with
computing resources.

EmNets, networked systems of embedded computers, are the central
theme of the book. This isn't science fiction. Some of what is
discussed in the work is already touching our lives. "It should
come as no surprise that the modern automobile is already a rolling
network of embedded computers. In model year 2001, cars have
between 20 and 80 microprocessors controlling everything from the
running of the engine to the break system to the deployment of
the airbags." While this certainly presents technical challenges,
there are ethical ones as well. "Few automobile drivers, for
example, are currently aware that many cars collect and store
information about the way the car has been driven (e.g., driving
speed, acceleration, engine speed). This information can be used
by manufacturers to better analyze accidents and, hence, improve
safety but could also be used to disallow warranty claims or to
prove that an automobile was operated in an unsafe manner."

Today's computing systems are complex and in amazing places. Yet,
the book makes the following assertion: "...as the rest of this
report makes clear, incremental improvement to today's solutions
will not suffice to realize the full potential of EmNets." The
book then goes on to identify those problem areas and to make
specific recommendations for research into solving those problems.

The book has an impressive list of authors. Deborah Estrin,
professor of CS at UCLA was the committee chair and
was backed up by Mark Horowitz of Stanford, Barbara Liskov of MIT
and others from academia. This wasn't just some university exercise,
however. Industry was also well represented on the effort with the
likes of Jerry Fiddler (founder and chairman of Wind River Systems),
Robert Colwell (lead architect for the P6 at Intel), and Jim Waldo
(Sun Microsystems and developer of the first CORBA ORB and later
Jini Network Technology), to name a few.

There is a hard-edged, practical feel to the extensive discussions
in this small book. Technical, architectural, methodological, social,
and ethical concerns are explored in depth.

Predicting the future is difficult. Luckily, you don't need to.
Just follow the research initiatives and they will light the path.

Embedded is an excellent summer read. Ross Dale masterfully egages us with fascinating self reflection and witty dialoge in this entertaining journey behind the cameras of the misunderstood adult entertainment industry. He shows us characters that are at one time flawed and endearing. The result is a love story that is profoundly real amid often surreal surroundings. From cover to cover, I was thoroughly entertained.

A friend recommended this to me and I must say - great read! It has two of my favorite things, sex and comedy combined with a pretty insightful look at the other side of the TV business. In less skilled hands, these adventures would come off as cartoonish. But Ross touches on the human element of the stories as well. My big question is, "How can I become a TV sex journalist?"

This book presents a very good coverage of modern Forth and comes from the world's second Forth programmer, a close friend of Chuck Moore (the inventer of the language), and president of Forth, Inc., the company they founded back in 1973. Forth has been one of those sleeper languages - not as widely known as most but used in a lot of places where few are aware of the implementation language - such as the FedEx hand scanners, Sun workstation boot software and many NASA space vehicles. This book give a great introduction to Forth and is up to date with the current ANSI standard. It is a good complement to Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth" (which, by the way, Forth Inc. owns the copyright to) and brings Forth into the 21st century. If you have ever had even the slightest curiosity about Forth or would like to look at a refreshing alternative to trendy languages today, get this book. For the price, you can not go wrong and I think you will be amazed by the beauty and simplicity (and power) of Forth.

This book is a good introduction into Forth. it's mostly
complete. it's easy to read, easy to understand and the
examples are quite useful. this is not a fat thousand
pages bloated book where one don't know how to start.
this book is exzellent for all peoples how want to understand
what Forth is and how Forth works. there are many years of
experience collected.