Embedded Systems – A Pragmatic Approach

Designing and writing software for embedded systems poses a different set of challenges than traditional high-level software development. This chapter gives an overview of these challenges and introduces the basic components and the platform that will be used as a reference in this book.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

• Domain definition
• RAM
• Flash memory
• Interfaces and peripherals
• Connected systems
• The reference platform