Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: Methods, Practical Techniques, and Applications

This Expert Guide gives you the techniques and technologies in software engineering to optimally design and implement your embedded system. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference gives you an indispensable aid to tackling the day-to-day problems when using software engineering methods to develop your embedded systems.

With this book you will learn:

The principles of good architecture for an embedded system

Design practices to help make your embedded project successful

Details on principles that are often a part of embedded systems, including digital signal processing, safety-critical principles, and development processes

Techniques for setting up a performance engineering strategy for your embedded system software

How to develop user interfaces for embedded systems

Strategies for testing and deploying your embedded system, and ensuring quality development processes

Practical techniques for optimizing embedded software for performance, memory, and power

Advanced guidelines for developing multicore software for embedded systems

How to develop embedded software for networking, storage, and automotive segments

How to manage the embedded development process

Includes contributions from:

Frank Schirrmeister, Shelly Gretlein, Bruce Douglass, Erich Styger, Gary Stringham, Jean Labrosse, Jim Trudeau, Mike Brogioli, Mark Pitchford, Catalin Dan Udma, Markus Levy, Pete Wilson, Whit Waldo, Inga Harris, Xinxin Yang, Srinivasa Addepalli, Andrew McKay, Mark Kraeling and Robert Oshana.
Road map of key problems/issues and references to their solution in the text

Review of core methods in the context of how to apply them

Examples demonstrating timeless implementation details

Short and to- the- point case studies show how key ideas can be implemented, the rationale for choices made, and design guidelines and trade-offs