Preface to the Second Edition
Embedded computing is more important today than it was in 2000, when the first edition of this book appeared. Embedded processors are in even more products, ranging from toys to airplanes. Systems-on-chips now use up to hundreds of CPUs. The cell phone is on its way to becoming the new standard computing platform. As my column in IEEE Computer in September 2006 indicated, there are at least a half-million embedded systems programmers in the world today, probably closer to 800,000.
In this edition I’ve tried to both update and to revamp. One major change is that the book now uses the TI C55x DSP. I seriously rewrote the discussion of real-time scheduling. I have tried to expand on performance analysis as a theme ...
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