Software Engineering for Embedded Systems

This Expert Guide gives you the techniques and technologies in software engineering to optimally design and implement your embedded system. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference gives you an indispensable aid to tackling the day-to-day problems when using software engineering methods to develop your embedded systems.

With this book you will learn:

• The principles of good architecture for an embedded system
• Design practices to help make your embedded project successful
• Details on principles that are often a part of embedded systems, including digital signal processing, safety-critical principles, and development processes
• Techniques for setting up a performance engineering strategy for your embedded system software
• How to develop user interfaces for embedded systems
• Strategies for testing and deploying your embedded system, and ensuring quality development processes
• Practical techniques for optimizing embedded software for performance, memory, and power
• Advanced guidelines for developing multicore software for embedded systems
• How to develop embedded software for networking, storage, and automotive segments
• How to manage the embedded development process

Includes contributions from:

Frank Schirrmeister, Shelly Gretlein, Bruce Douglass, Erich Styger, Gary Stringham, Jean Labrosse, Jim Trudeau, Mike Brogioli, Mark Pitchford, Catalin Dan Udma, Markus Levy, Pete Wilson, Whit Waldo, Inga Harris, Xinxin Yang, Srinivasa Addepalli, Andrew McKay, Mark Kraeling and Robert Oshana.

• Road map of key problems/issues and references to their solution in the text 
• Review of core methods in the context of how to apply them  
• Examples demonstrating timeless implementation details  
• Short and to- the- point case studies show how key ideas can be implemented, the rationale for choices made, and design guidelines and trade-offs 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Software Engineering of Embedded and Real-Time Systems
Chapter 2 Embedded Systems Hardware/Software Co-Development
Chapter 3 Software Modeling for Embedded Systems
Chapter 4 Software Design Architecture and Patterns for Embedded Systems
Chapter 5 Real-Time Building Blocks: Events and Triggers
Chapter 6 Hardware’s Interface to Embedded Software
Chapter 7 Embedded Software Programming and Implementation Guidelines
Chapter 8 Embedded Operating Systems
Chapter 9 Software Reuse By Design in Embedded Systems
Chapter 10 Software Performance Engineering for Embedded Systems
Chapter 11 Optimizing Embedded Software for Performance
Chapter 12 Optimizing Embedded Software for Memory
Chapter 13 Optimizing Embedded Software for Power
Chapter 14 Human Factors and User Interface Design for Embedded Systems
Chapter 15 Embedded Software Quality, Integration and Testing Techniques
Chapter 16 Software Development Tools for Embedded Systems
Chapter 17 Multicore Software Development for Embedded Systems
Chapter 18 Safety-Critical Software Development
Chapter 19 Intellectual Property
Chapter 20 Managing Embedded Software Development
Chapter 21 Agile Development for Embedded Systems
Chapter 22 Embedded Software for Automotive Applications
Chapter 23 Programming for I/O and Storage
Chapter 24 Embedded Software for Networking Applications
Chapter 25 Linux for Embedded Systems