Re: Books recomendation for embedded programmer.

stijn@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm convinced that this student has got the intelectual capacity and
motivation to become a good programmer , but i feel that he is missing
the basic concepts of 'real time' embedded programing.

Anyone some pointers to books that explain basic concepts as blocking
and non-blocking code, preemptive and cooperative multitasking,
message queues, state-machines.

Burns and Wellings, "Real Time Systems and their Programming Languages".
Disclaimer - I've never actually owned the book; I was taught by them
from the original notes that became it, 20-ish years ago ;)

That gives a lot of the classical RT programming constructs.

Sutter's "Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified" might be good, it's got
loads of examples in it, although I've never tried it on a novice ;)

A *good* computer architecture book - Hennessy & Patterson - is probably
a must-read too.


I'm looking for some literature on the basic concepts, preferable
with examples in C but without going to much into detail on how
commercial RTOS works etc...

The way to learn C is by writing programs, with Harbison & Steele as a
fallback ;)

pete
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pete@xxxxxxxxxxx "how many clever men have called the sun a fool?"
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