
Their huge numbers and new complexity calls for a new design approach, one that emphasizes high-level tools and hardware/software tradeoffs, rather than low-level assembly-language programming and logic design. In today’s world, embedded systems are everywhere – homes, offices, cars, factories, hospitals, planes, and consumer electronics. For courses found in EE, CS and other engineering departments.

It covers trends and challenges, introduces the design and use of single-purpose processors (“hardware”) and general-purpose processors (“software”), describes memories and buses, illustrates hardware/software tradeoffs using a digital camera example, and discusses advanced computation models, controls systems, chip technologies, and modern design tools. This book introduces a modern approach to embedded system design, presenting software design and hardware design in a unified manner.

Read and download free eBook intituled Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction in format Online, PDF – 352 pages created by Frank Vahid and Tony Givargis.
