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What is the delivery time and cost of print books?

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Lalit Agarwal Mar 11, 2021

Great one-stop encyclopedia about developing Embedded systems, firmware, IoT using FPGAs and custom circuits. I particularly loved the step-by-step guide at the end of chapters on how to develop your own project. Jim's presentation is engaging for both a new and experience embedded software developer. I highly recommend it.

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Matthew Emerick Apr 19, 2021

About This BookThis is a book that digs deep into building embedded systems that can work with today’s most demanding applications. It takes you from nothing to designing and building your own circuit board, which is not the easiest task. It’s a hands-on book that will teach you useful hardware and software skills.Who Is This For?This book is written for anyone interested in low-level hardware and the Internet of Things. With network interfaces embedded in more and more items, understanding this area can open many doors in designing new toys, smart home accessories, or appliances. Robotics is another application area that benefits from this book and is where I’m coming from.OrganizationI like the overall structure with an introduction section, the basics, and then advanced information. Each chapter also has a good structure, starting with the Technical Requirements and ending with a Summary. This is something that any technical book should have. Each chapter is unique enough that there is no useful microstructure beyond this.Did This Book Succeed?Mostly. There is a lot to understand and at times the book doesn’t explain the why. Granted, this is a more hands-on book, and it’s meant to get your hands dirty. The one quibble, and this is something that I’ve pointed out in other books that deal with hardware, is that the cost of the project isn’t detailed out in the very beginning. The cost of the board itself is on page 106 in the printed version and hidden in a paragraph. If I’m expected to build something and need to buy the hardware, I want to know before I buy it so I can work out if I want to pay for both the book and the project.Rating and Final ThoughtsI give this book a 4.7 out of 5.The project should have been summarized at the beginning of the book with a cost estimate. I would also have liked to have seen recommended sources for learning the prerequisite material. Finally, follow-up books or projects would have been welcome as an easy way to expand what you learn here. Thankfully, these are minor concerns about an otherwise solid and useful book.

ScottE Mar 12, 2021

This book is solid and fast introduction to the workflow and tools needed to build embedded systems. This book rapidly covers the basics of RTOSs, FPGAs, sampling, schematic capture/layout with KiCAD, firmware and debugging./testing. This book covers a lot of ground and touches on some theory and walks through installing the tools for each technology. It also provides a detailed walk through a basic end to end example.The title is a bit misleading as this is an introduction, not an architecture book. This is a great introductions, to high performance embedded systems (here high performance would be defined as including FPGAs and RTOS). If you are a computer science major who want to take those next steps into IoT beyond Arduino or are an instructor selecting a fast-paced "intro to embedded system" course then this might be a choice. If you are a EE who needs to get a quick FPGA introduction so you can add FPGAs to your designs or a firmware engineer who needs to add some layout skills then there are so good chapters here to boot strap you into new skills. If you are a principal embedded systems engineer designing the generation Mars lander then you will not fined a deep discussion of architecture and this is not for you.This book covers a lot ground. Yes, there is some theory. Yes there are introduction to current tools. Yes, there are practical tutorials. The topics essentially covers the main areas of a good embedded systems degree. Is this the right balance? Like most things in engineering , it depends on your needs. Each chapter would need a three class series for a solid grounding so this is only a fast survey, but a good one to get a good picture of what high performance embedded is all about. This survey does provide that big picture that would provide a map for students as they dig into details in their upper division classes. Is this all you need to architect that mars lander, no. If you are a cloud python programmer and want to get a job as a senior FPGA you will need a lot more education, training and experience, but his book is a good place to start. One concern is that the tools installation instructions may not age well as tools update.Disclosure, I responded to an ad and received a free e-copy of this book, but I have no other relationship with the author or publisher.

Umut Durak Feb 25, 2021

This is another comprehensive compilation from Jim Ledin. It renders almost all the topics for embedded systems development with state-of-the-art tools, infrastructures and target platforms. What I liked a lot about this book is its structure. These types of books are usually references. You do not read them cover to cover, rather dive into the chapter of your interest. However, Jim Ledin managed to come up with an exciting story line. Reader starts with high performance embedded systems requirements, and key technologies that make it possible to like FPGAs, modern RTOS, network fabrics, then engages in to design and construction section where the real magic starts. Jim Ledin uses tutorials extensively all through the book. That will surely make many reader feel at home, who use tutorials when they would like to learn something new. You start with your first FPGA project, and proceed to circuit design with KiCad and soldering it. Implementation and testing real-time firmware section at the end introduces various important aspects of practicing embedded software engineering profession. The list includes coding guidelines, static code analysis, version control, requirements traceability and code coverage. I would recommend the book for senior and graduate level CS and EE students, as well as embedded systems enthusiastic and professionals. I am sure they will all enjoy the material presented.

Thanks Jul 13, 2022

So far it’s highly well written in a wholeness and completeness logic wise in which illogical guessing is none existent and real world application is comprehensively explained. I would highly recommend this book.

Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems: Design and build high-performance real-time digital systems based on FPGAs and custom circuits

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