Embedded Computer Systems, Volume I, Introduction and Architecture

The book starts out with a top-level discussion of the structure and organization of embedded computers as computers, the fetch-execute cycle, memory, Input/output. We focus on classical cpu architectures, while also looking at Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System on Chip (SoC) approaches. This leads us to the discussion of software for embedded. There are several differences here between embedded software and software in general. Most embedded systems are resource-constrained, b...