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Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955965
Pages 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Jim Ledin Jim Ledin
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Jim Ledin is the CEO of Ledin Engineering, Inc. Jim is an expert in embedded software and hardware design and testing. He is also an expert in system cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jim is a registered professional electrical engineer in California, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and a Certified Penetration Tester (CPT).
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Fundamentals of High-Performance Embedded Systems
Chapter 1: Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems Chapter 2: Sensing the World Chapter 3: Operating in Real Time Section 2: Designing and Constructing High-Performance Embedded Systems
Chapter 4: Developing Your First FPGA Program Chapter 5: Implementing systems with FPGAs Chapter 6: Designing Circuits with KiCad Chapter 7: Building High-Performance Digital Circuits Section 3: Implementing and Testing Real-Time Firmware
Chapter 8: Bringing Up the Board for the First Time Chapter 9: The Firmware Development Process Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging the Embedded System Other Books You May Enjoy

Test-driven development

Test-driven development (TDD) is a philosophy and process for integrating comprehensive testing into the software development process at the earliest stage possible. The idea behind this approach is to begin with a set of fully tested individual components and continue testing as these components are integrated into a functional system. By using this methodology, the likelihood of significant bugs remaining in the code is drastically reduced.

To make the development process test-driven, you first write a test for a piece of functionality that does not yet exist in the system and then run the test. The test should fail, perhaps by not even compiling successfully if a function being called does not yet exist. You then implement the function the test is attempting to execute, which should allow the test to pass. The set of tests should verify as fully as possible that the implemented system code is performing correctly.

While fairly simple in concept, there...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Jim Ledin
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Jim Ledin is the CEO of Ledin Engineering, Inc. Jim is an expert in embedded software and hardware design and testing. He is also an expert in system cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jim is a registered professional electrical engineer in California, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and a Certified Penetration Tester (CPT).
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