Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/software Introduction

This book introduces a modern approach to embedded system design, presenting software design and hardware design in a unified manner. It covers trends and challenges, introduces the design and use of single-purpose processors ("hardware") and general-purpose processors ("software"), describes memories and buses, illustrates hardware/software tradeoffs using a digital camera example, and discusses advanced computation models, controls systems, chip technologies, and modern design tools. For courses found in EE, CS and other engineering departments.

Table of contents :
Preface
Introduction
· Custom Single-Purpose Processors: Hardware
· General-Purpose Processors: Software
· Standard Single-Purpose Processors: Peripherals
· Memory
· Interfacing
· Digital Camera Example
· State Machine and Concurrent Process Models
· Control Systems
· IC Technology
· Design Technology
Appendix A: Online Resources
Index