Chapter 8. Cross-Platform and Embedded Systems Development

As you have already learned in Chapter 3, development systems consist of many tools. The discussion in Chapter 3 was about native software development, which means that the host system on which the software is developed and the target system on which the software runs are the same. This chapter provides information about embedded and cross-platform software development where the host system and the target system are different. The issues in this type of development are slightly different although basic programming methods and techniques remain the same.

In this chapter I have used a single board computer from Arcom (www.arcomcontrols.com) and a processor mezzanine card from Artesyn ( ...

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