Front Cover -- Embedded Systems Design -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. What is an embedded system? -- What is an embedded system? -- Inside the embedded system -- Examples -- Chapter 2. Embedded processors -- 8 bit accumulator processors -- Example 8 bit architectures -- Microcontrollers -- Data processors -- INTEL 80286 -- INTEL 80386DX -- INTEL 80486 -- Intel 486SX and overdrive processors -- Intel Pentium -- Motorola MC68000 -- The MC68000 hardware -- Motorola MC68020 -- Motorola MC68030 -- The MC68040 -- Integrated processors -- RISC processors -- The Berkeley RISC model -- Sun SPARC RISC processor -- The Stanford RISC model -- The MPC603 block diagram -- Digital signal processors -- DSP basic architecture -- Chapter 3. Memory systems -- Memory technologies -- SRAM -- EPROM and OTP -- Memory organisation -- Parity -- Error detecting and correcting memory -- Access times -- Packages -- DRAM interfaces -- DRAM refresh techniques -- Optimizing line length and cache size -- Logical vs physical caches -- Unified versus Harvard caches -- Cache coherency -- Case 1: write-through -- Case 2: write-back -- Case 3: no caching of write cycles -- Case 4: write buffer -- Bus snooping -- The MESI protocol -- The MEI protocol -- Big and little endian -- Dual port and shared memory -- Bank switching -- Memory overlays -- Shadowing -- Example interfaces -- Chapter 4. Basic peripherals -- Parallel ports -- Timer/counters -- 8253 timer modes -- MC68230 modes -- Timer processors -- Real-time clocks -- Serial ports -- Serial peripheral interface -- I2C bus -- M-Bus (Motorola) -- What is an RS232 serial port? -- Asynchronous flow control -- UART implementations -- DMA controllers -- A generic DMA controller -- DMA controller models -- Channels and control blocks -- Sharing bus bandwidth -- DMA implementations.

Chapter 5. Interfacing to the analogue world -- Analogue to digital conversion techniques -- Sample rates and size -- Codecs -- Power control -- Chapter 6. Interrupts and exceptions -- What is an interrupt? -- Interrupt sources -- Recognising an interrupt -- The interrupt mechanism -- MC68000 interrupts -- RISC exceptions -- Fast interrupts -- Interrupt controllers -- Instruction restart and continuation -- Interrupt latency -- Do's and Don'ts -- Chapter 7. Real-time operating systems -- What are operating systems? -- Operating system internals -- Multitasking operating systems -- Scheduler algorithms -- Priority inversion -- Tasks, threads and processes -- Exceptions -- Memory model -- Memory management address translation -- Commercial operating systems -- Resource protection -- Linux -- Disk partitioning -- Chapter 8. Writing software for embedded systems -- The compilation process -- Native versus cross-compilers -- Run-time libraries -- Writing a library -- Using alternative libraries -- Using a standard library -- Porting kernels -- C extensions for embedded systems -- Downloading -- Chapter 9. Emulation and debugging techniques -- Debugging techniques -- The role of the development system -- Emulation techniques -- Chapter 10. Buffering and other data structures -- What is a buffer? -- Linear buffers -- Directional buffers -- Double buffering -- Buffer exchange -- Linked lists -- FIFOs -- Circular buffers -- Buffer underrun and overrun -- Allocating buffer memory -- Memory leakage -- Chapter 11. Memory and performance trade-offs -- The effect of memory wait states -- Scenario 1- Single cycle processor with large external memory -- Scenario 2- Reducing the cost of memory access -- Making the right decisions -- Chapter 12. Software examples -- Benchmark example -- Creating software state machines -- Chapter 13. Design examples.

Buglar alarm system -- Digital echo unit -- Chapter 14. Real-time without a RTOS -- Choosing the software environment -- Deriving real-time performance from a non-real-time system -- Scheduling the data sampling -- Sampling the data -- Controlling from an external switch -- Problems -- Program listing -- Index.