Children need embedded systems to play smart video games and to operate automatic chocolate-vending machines! Young people need embedded systems to borrow smart cards from parents to see movies! Housewives need embedded systems for smart Internet-compliant home appliances, such as, microwave, television, music system, and so on. The driver needs it for automatic cruise control of a car. Organisations require embedded systems for network systems and products. There are uncountable examples of the applications of embedded systems.

While writing this book, the author had in his mind the graduate engineering students, readers and keen learners who are budding embedded system engineers of today and perhaps the master designers of these systems tomorrow. Also in mind were the young software engineers interested in working on embedded software and real-time programming projects. This book is intended as a textbook for the students and a reference for the engineers to explain the concepts necessary for designing high-performance response-time constrained sophisticated systems.

The book has been designed such that the readers first learn about the architecture of an embedded system followed by its basic hardware and software elements, programming models and software engineering practices that are used during the system development process and then learn the software techniques to embed codes into the system.

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