Reusable Firmware Development: A Practical Approach to APIs, HALs and Drivers

Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to improve your embedded software and benefit from author Jacob Beningo’s more than 15 years developing reusable and portable software for resource-constrained microcontroller-based systems. You will explore APIs, HALs, and driver development among other topics to acquire a solid foundation for improving your own software. Reusable Firmware Development: A Practical Approach to APIs, HALs and Drivers not only explains critical concepts, but also provides a plethora of examples, exercises, and case studies on how to use and implement the concepts.

What You’ll Learn

• Develop portable firmware using the C programming language
• Discover APIs and HALs, explore their differences, and see why they are important to developers of resource-constrained software
• Master microcontroller driver development concepts, strategies, and examples
• Write drivers that are reusable across multiple MCU families and vendors
• Improve the way software documented
• Design APIs and HALs for microcontroller-based systems

Who This Book Is For

Those with some prior experience with embedded programming.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Concepts for Developing Portable Firmware
Chapter 2: API and HAL Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Device Driver Fundamentals in C
Chapter 4: Writing Reusable Drivers
Chapter 5: Documenting Firmware with Doxygen
Chapter 6: The Hardware Abstraction Layer Design Process
Chapter 7: HAL Design for GPIO
Chapter 8: HAL Design for SPI
Chapter 9: HAL Design for EEPROM and Memory Devices
Chapter 10: API Design for Embedded Applications
Chapter 11: Testing Portable Embedded Software
Chapter 12: A Practical Approach to Code Reuse