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Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

You're reading from  Embedded Systems Architecture - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239545
Pages 342 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniele Lacamera Daniele Lacamera
Profile icon Daniele Lacamera

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introduction to Embedded Systems Development
2. Chapter 1: Embedded Systems – A Pragmatic Approach 3. Chapter 2: Work Environment and Workflow Optimization 4. Part 2 – Core System Architecture
5. Chapter 3: Architectural Patterns 6. Chapter 4: The Boot-Up Procedure 7. Chapter 5: Memory Management 8. Part 3 – Device Drivers and Communication Interfaces
9. Chapter 6: General-Purpose Peripherals 10. Chapter 7: Local Bus Interfaces 11. Chapter 8: Power Management and Energy Saving 12. Chapter 9: Distributed Systems and IoT Architecture 13. Part 4 – Multithreading
14. Chapter 10: Parallel Tasks and Scheduling 15. Chapter 11: Trusted Execution Environment 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Workflow overview

Writing software in C, as well as in every other compiled language, requires the code to be transformed into an executable format for a specific target to run it. C is portable across different architectures and execution environments. Programmers rely on a set of tools to compile, link, execute, and debug software to a specific target.

Building the firmware image of an embedded system relies on a similar set of tools, which can produce firmware images for specific targets, called a toolchain. This section gives an overview of the common sets of tools required to write software in C and produce programs that are directly executable on the machine that compiled them. The workflow must then be extended and adapted to integrate the toolchain components and produce executable code for the target platform.

The C compiler

The C compiler is a tool responsible for translating source code into machine code, which can be interpreted by a specific CPU. Each compiler...

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