Embedded Systems: Desktop Integration - Oliver H. Bailey (Wordware Publishing, Inc.)

Oliver Bailey has taken a unique approach in this book by using a
real product design process, complete with imaginative requests
from a marketing department and managers. Early in the book, I
identified with many circumstances that regularly occur in our
office when we’re considering a new product. It reminded me
that there’s so much more to product design than a schematic,
some microcontroller code, and a printed circuit board. It’s a
reminder that designing the prototype is 90 percent of the fun
and 10 percent of the work, and that you can swap these two
numbers to bring a product to market. With his business-minded
approach, Oliver challenges us to put thought into the software
integration, operating systems, hardware design, and marketing
department requests up front. The result is that the prototype
will be more complete, and completing the project will involve
less feature creep. This is what it will take, because embedded
developers are always looking at desktop integration
alternatives.
Many books dealing with microcontrollers are very firmware
(microcontroller code) and hardware (circuit design) oriented.
They provide code examples, a schematic, and a description of
how the design should work. They rarely cover the hardware
connection solutions (USB, serial, Ethernet), not to mention the
variety of operating systems and drivers for the hardware.
Knowing more about microcontrollers than operating systems, I
spent all of my time reviewing the sections on designing
cross-platform user applications and their programming environments.
From reading microcontroller discussion forums it is clear
that most users need support with the subject. Now they have it
in one place. These considerations are far more important to
embedded developers than they used to be.
Categories: EMBEDDED, ECE, ELECTRONICS
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