Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified (With CD-ROM)
Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified (With CD-ROM)
ISBN: 1578200997
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 118
Pages: 118
Authors: Ed Sutter
- 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
Embedded Systems Firmware Demystified (With CD-ROM)
ISBN: 1578200997
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 118
Pages: 118
Authors: Ed Sutter