Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: Methods, Practical Techniques, and Applications

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

Unique Features Include:

• 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

Robert Oshana has over 30 years of experience in the embedded software industry, primarily focused on embedded and real-time systems for the defense industry and semiconductor industries. He has BSEE, MSEE, MSCS, and MBA degrees and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Rob is an international speaker and has over 100 presentations and publications in various technology fields and has written several books on embedded software technology. Rob is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Director of Global Software R&D for Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor. Mark Kraeling has over 20 years of experience in the embedded software industry, primarily focused on embedded real-time systems for the automotive and transportation industries. He has a BSEE, MSEE, and MBA degrees. Mark is a regular speaker at embedded conferences worldwide, and has various papers and articles focused on embedded development that have been published over the course of his career. Mark started his career at Cummins, Inc. developing real-time engine controls, and currently develops control, communication, and safety-critical systems for GE Transportation.