Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming

by Christopher Kormanyos

Overview

With this book, Christopher Kormanyos delivers a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. It is divided into three parts plus several appendices. Part I provides a foundation for real-time C++ by covering language technologies, including object-oriented methods, template programming and optimization. Next, part II presents detailed descriptions of a variety of C++ components that are widely used in microcontroller programming. It details some of C++’s most powerful language elements, such as class types, templates and the STL, to develop components for microcontroller register access, low-level drivers, custom memory management, embedded containers, multitasking, etc. Finally, part III describes mathematical methods and generic utilities that can be employed to solve recurring problems in real-time C++. The appendices include a brief C++ language tutorial, information on the real-time C++ development environment and instructions for building GNU GCC cross-compilers and a microcontroller circuit.

For this fourth edition, the most recent specification of C++20 is used throughout the text. Several sections on new C++20 functionality have been added, and various others reworked to reflect changes in the standard. Also several new example projects ranging from introductory to advanced level are included and existing ones extended, and various reader suggestions have been incorporated. Efficiency is always in focus and numerous examples are backed up with runtime measurements and size analyses that quantify the true costs of the code down to the very last byte and microsecond.

The target audience of this book mainly consists of students and professionals interested in real-time C++. Readers should be familiar with C or another programming language and will benefit most if they have had some previous experience with microcontroller electronics and the performance and size issues prevalent in embedded systems programming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662585931
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	01/10/2019
Edition description:	Third Edition 2018
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher Kormanyos is a senior system architect at a major automotive supplier with more than 25 years of experience in software development, microcontroller system design and application deployment. Chris is well-connected in the microcontroller industry and has strong professional ties to both tier-one silicon suppliers as well as compiler and tool vendors. He received a PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Colorado in 1994 and also holds several patents for automotive electronic technologies.

Table of Contents

Part I: Language Technologies for Real-Time C++.- 1. Getting Started with Real-Time C++.- 2. Working with a Real-Time C++ Program on a Board.- 3. An Easy Jump Start in Real-Time C++.- 4. Object-Oriented Techniques for Microcontrollers.- 5. C++ Templates for Microcontrollers.- 6. Optimized C++ Programming for Microcontrollers.- Part II: Components for Real-Time C++.- 7. Accessing Microcontroller Registers.- 8. The Right Start.- 9. Low-Level Hardware Drivers in C++.- 10. Custom Memory Management.- 11. C++ Multitasking.- Part III: Mathematics and Utilities for Real-Time C++.- 12. Floating-Point Mathematics.- 13. Fixed-Point Mathematics.- 14. High-Performance Digital Filters.- 15. C++ Utilities.- 16. Extending the C++ Standard Library and the STL.- 17. Using C-Language Code in C++.- Additional Reading.