Books in the Embedded Technology series

Focuses on designing with Microchip's mid-range PIC line using MBASIC, a powerful but easy to learn programming language. This book illustrates MBASIC's abilities through a series of design examples, beginning with simple PIC-based projects and proceeding through more advanced designs.

Presents mathematical background with sufficient rigor for an engineering text, and concentrates on providing practical application examples that can be used to design working systems, without needing to fully understand the math and high-level theory operating behind the scenes.

Provides a comprehensive reference for firmware developers looking to increase their skills and productivity. This work addresses each critical step of the development process in detail, including how to optimize hardware design for better firmware. It includes a CD-ROM that contains the code used in the design examples.

Focuses on TPM for embedded designers. This title provides a foundation on the TPM, helping designers take advantage of hardware security based on sound TCG standards. It covers the TPM basics, discussing in detail the TPM Key Hierarchy and the Trusted Platform Module specification. It also includes an accompanying CD-ROM with full source code.

A practical guide that provides instructions on how to achieve successful designs using a broad spectrum of different microcontrollers and scripting languages. It offers an introduction to working in the world of embedded design. It answers questions on which are the best products to learn, trainings to get, and kinds of companies to work for.

Intended for embedded engineers who are new to the embedded field, or for the thousands of engineers who have experience with other microcontrollers (such as PICs, 8051s, or Motorola HC0x devices) but are new to the MSP430 line, this title offers a description of the device features, gives development guidelines, and provides design examples.

In an embedded system, firmware is the software that directly interfaces with the microcontroller, controlling the system's function. This book covers every aspect of design from the system level to the component level, including system timing, communicating with the hardware, integration and testing.

Gives a practical, hands-on guide to using UML to design and implement embedded and real-time systems. This book features a building block approach: a series of progressive worked exercises with step-by-step explanations of the complete solution, clearly demonstrating how to convert concepts into actual designs.

Offers a combination of technical data, example code, and descriptive prose you can find anywhere. This book can bring you up to speed quickly on PSoC, from memory management to interconnects. It helps you add brains and capable signal conditioning to a design with one chip, giving you extreme flexibility for a relatively low price.

Offers introduction to digital signal processors DSP software development for embedded and real-time developers and shows how to use digital signal processors efficiently in embedded and real-time systems. This title covers software and firmware design principles, from processor architectures and basic theory to the selection of basic algorithms.

Deals with the rapid prototyping aspect of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) use, showing designers how they can cut time off production cycles and save their companies money drained by costly mistakes, via prototyping designs with FPGAs first.

Guides readers through the wireless technology forest, giving them the knowledge, the hardware and the software necessary to design a wireless embedded device rapidly, inexpensively, and effectively. This book gives a thorough introduction to 802.11 technology and puts it into perspective against the other wireless standard options.

With today's tight schedules and lower budgets, embedded designers are under greater pressure to deliver prototypes and system designs faster and cheaper. The author demonstrates how the use of the right tools and operating systems can make seemingly impossible deadlines possible. He shares many advanced, 'in-the-trenches' design secrets.

A key technology enabling fast-paced embedded media processing developments is the high-performance, low-power, small-footprint convergent processor, a specialized device that combines the real-time control of a traditional microcontroller with the signal processing power of a DSP. This guide helps you understand how to implement this technology.