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Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified (With CD-ROM)

ISBN: 1578200997
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 118

Authors: Ed Sutter

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• Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified
• Back Cover
• About
• Preface
• Whats Covered in this Book?
• Conventions
• Source Code
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: A Hard Start
• System Requirements
• Central Processing Unit
• System Memory
• CPU Supervision
• Serial Port Drivers
• Ethernet Interface
• Flash Device Options
• The CPUMemory Interface
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Getting Started
• How Is It Done on a PC?
• Building Libraries
• Up Front
• Run Time
• Hardware Sanity Tests for the Firmware Developer
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Introducing MicroMonitor
• Chapter 4: Assembly Required
• Just After Reset
• IO Initialization
• Establish Exception Handlers
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Command Line Interface
• CLI Data Structure and the Command Table
• CLI Processing
• The Functions Beneath the Command Name
• Shell Variable and Symbol Processing
• Command-Line Redirection
• Command Line Editing and History
• User Levels
• Password Protection
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Interfacing to Flash Memory
• The Interface Functions
• Flash Driver Front End
• Summary
• Chapter 7: A Flash File System
• The TFS Design Criteria
• File Attributes
• High-Level Details
• Flash Space Overhead Required by TFS
• Defragmentation
• TFS Implementation
• Adding and Deleting Files
• To Load or Not to Load
• File Decompression
• Execute In Place
• Summary
• Chapter 8: Executing Scripts
• Conditional Branching
• A Few Examples
• Summary
• Chapter 9: Network Connectivity
• Ethernet
• ARP
• IP
• ICMP
• UDP and TCP
• DHCPBOOTP
• Applied to Embedded Systems
• Summary
• Chapter 10: FileData Transfer
• TFTP
• Field Upgrade Capability
• Summary
• Chapter 11: Adding the Application
• Less Intense Startup
• Establishing an Application Stack
• Connecting to the Monitors API
• The Application start() Functionstart() Function
• The Application main() Functionmain() Function
• Application-Originated Drivers
• Application-Based CLI Uses Monitor CLI
• Scripts Run Through the Applications CLI
• Summary
• Chapter 12: Monitor-Based Debugging
• Different Type of Debug Philosophy
• Breakpoints
• Adding Symbolic Capabilities
• Displaying Memory
• Overlaying a C Structure onto Memory
• Stack Trace
• Testing for Stack Overflow
• System Profiling
• Summary
• Chapter 13: Porting MicroMonitor to the ColdFire MCF5272
• Source Code Directory Tree
• The Makefile
• The Configuration Header File
• Stepping Through the Port
• Summary
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Building a Host-Based Toolbox
• Interfacing to Files on the Host
• Interfacing to the PC Serial Port
• PC-Based UDP Transactions: moncmd
• Summary
• Appendix B: RTOS Overview
• The Scheduler
• Tasks, Threads, and Processes
• Preemption, Time Slicing, and Interrupts
• Semaphores, Events, Messages, and Timers
• Reentrancy
• Good Concurrency vs. Bad Concurrency
• Summary
• List of Figures
• List of Listings
• List of Sidebars