Drumnadrochit Education

Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and make your product better! If you're looking for the 2010 hardcover edition, there are a few floating around. Info: Drumnadrochit Education LLC, 2010, Hardcover, 397 pages, acid free paper, ISBN-13: 978-0-9844490-0-2, ISBN-10: 0-9844490-0-0, Order from Amazon Practical advice on avoiding common embedded system... design problems: This book distills the experience of more than 90 design reviews on real embedded systems into a set of bite-size lessons learned in the areas of software development process, requirements, architecture, design, implementation, verification & validation, and critical system properties. Each chapter describes an area that tends to be a problem in embedded system design, symptoms that tend to indicate you need to make changes, the risks of not fixing problems in this area, and concrete ways to make your embedded system software better. Each of the 29 chapters is relatively self-sufficient, permitting developers with a busy schedule to cherry-pick the best ideas to make their systems better right away. Upgrade your embedded software design skills: The book chapters address things that every embedded software engineer should know. If you are relatively new to the area but have already learned the basics, this book will be an invaluable asset for taking your game to the next level. If you are experienced, this book provides a way to fill in any gaps. Once you have mastered this material, the book will serve as a source of reminders to make sure you haven't forgotten anything as you plan your next project. While this is a book written for practicing embedded software developers, it has already been adopted as a textbook for advanced embedded system courses at Carnegie Mellon University and other universities. This first edition incorporates improvements identified in a beta trial at those universities in Spring 2010. Features that will make this a permanent reference book in your personal library: Most chapters are 10-15 pages long -- enough depth to be ...Read More