Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems

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This book is an excellent resource. It’s highly detailed oriented, fully of great information and examples of real time concepts (as the title says)I would say some colleges offer “embedded” classes but do not even go into this detail. And it’s difficult to get exposed to real time embedded in college. My point is this book is great for beginner to intermediate engineers in industry looking to expand their knowledge and toolbox.

The first few chapters were a bit slow, but the content is solid and progression seemed natural. By chapter 8 the content kept me engaged and turning to the next page. I had learned must of the content before chapter 14 from cutting my teeth on broken systems. I recall replacing a 9600 baud modem with a 56k baud modem and finding that the clock ran slow if the modem was set to use more than 36k baud--tracked the problem to a 3rd parties ISR. I really appreciate the state charts for objects like the semaphores and queues. The chapters on modularizing (14) and synchronization (15) were very valuable for me, and breaking down the communication using design patterns is much appreciated.

At first sight the book looks great. The problem was that in a given example of how to write code correctly there was a deadlock!!!..

I just recently started my career in Embedded Software and decided to pick up a few books. I've gone through chapters 1-5 thus far with great interest and am really enjoying the structured, beginner-like quality it entails. We use VxWorks at work and although most of our application and kernel tasking has been implemented it still is an awesome read!

I bought this for review before going on job interviews. For me it was perfect. I had taken a course in OS college and have been working on embedded systems for 13 years. You kind of keep some of this for granted if you are not directly in charge of maintaining the OS. As the name says it only gives concepts so it doesn't go into any great detail about a particular OS. The book has 15 pages on semaphores (15 pages sounds like a lot, but the text is not dense ). You are not going to be an expert on semaphores but you will get the basic "concepts" of them.

This book is really well done. The explanations and descriptions seem simple, but I think that's only because they ARE well done.This book can be equally useful for both novice and intermediate programmers. Experts in RTOS's may want something a little less instructive and more like a "reference" manual, but don't be fooled by that statement and over-estimate your skills. If you can't completely describe semiphore types, deadlock breaking strategies and timing wheels, you may still need this book.

the book written so clearly and simply. i think its extremely useful for engineers who new at RTOS. it contains valuable information each chapter. if you say "what's RTOS" ,definitely you must buy this book.