About the Author

Rodolfo Giometti is an engineer, IT specialist, and GNU/Linux expert. He has over 15 years of experience working with platforms based on x86 (PC), ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC. He is the first author and a maintainer of the LinuxPPS project (Linux's pulse per second subsystem.) He actively contributes to the Linux source code with several patches and new device drivers for several devices. His areas of core expertise are in writing device drivers for new peripherals, realizing special Linux ports for several custom embedded boards, and developing control automation and remote monitoring systems. He is the cofounder of the Cosino Project, where he develops software for industry control automation systems. He is also the co-CEO at HCE Engineering S.r.l., a leading industrial embedded systems-based company.

I would like to thank my wife Valentina and my children Romina and Raffaele for their patience during the writing of this book. I also give deep thanks and gratitude to the guys at Packt: Vivek Anantharaman, who gave to me the opportunity to write this book, and Rashmi Suvarna, who supported me in finishing this book.

Many thanks to Armando Genovese for his help in designing the circuitries, to Michele Scafoglieri and Elango Palanisamy for their support and effort in reviewing this book so carefully and to Vatsal Surti for his help in fixing up my English.

In the end, I cannot forget to thank my parents who, by giving me my first computer when I was a child, allowed me to do what I do today.