Reusable Firmware Development: A Practical Approach to APIs, HALs and Drivers

Description

Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to improve your embedded software and benefit from author Jacob Beningo’s more than 15 years developing reusable and portable software for resource-constrained microcontroller-based systems. You will explore APIs, HALs, and driver development among other topics to acquire a solid foundation for improving your own software. Reusable Firmware Development: A Practical Approach to APIs, HALs and Drivers not only explains critical concepts, but also provides a plethora of examples, exercises, and case studies on how to use and implement the concepts. What You'll Learn • Develop portable firmware using the C programming language • Discover APIs and HALs, explore their differences, and see why they are important to developers of resource-constrained software • Master microcontroller driver development concepts, strategies, and examples • Write drivers that are reusable across multiple MCU families and vendors • Improve the way software documented • Design APIs and HALs for microcontroller-based systems Who This Book Is For Those with some prior experience with embedded programming. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Concepts for Developing Portable Firmware (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 1-28 API and HAL Fundamentals (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 29-60 Device Driver Fundamentals in C (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 61-93 Writing Reusable Drivers (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 95-119 Documenting Firmware with Doxygen (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 121-148 The Hardware Abstraction Layer Design Process (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 149-165 HAL Design for GPIO (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 167-200 HAL Design for SPI (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 201-217 HAL Design for EEPROM and Memory Devices (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 219-241 API Design for Embedded Applications (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 243-256 Testing Portable Embedded Software (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 257-275 A Practical Approach to Code Reuse (Jacob Beningo)....Pages 277-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-308