• An Embedded Software Primer | | | |
• Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach | | | |
• Programming Embedded Systems: With C and GNU Development Tools, 2nd Edition | | | |
• MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM) | | | |
• Embedded Systems Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers (Embedded Technology) | | | |

No Book
Review written by: Kushal Chandra From tacoma, WA, USA
I did not receive this book. Amazon has already charged me for it and on the track you purchase it says its delivered. The product was available from many vendors but I chose Amazon since I trusted it the most. I personally will not deal with them anymore.

Do not have any details on how things work!!
Review written by: Venkateswara C. Penumuchu From
This book wasted pages with big fonts and hallow tables. For example this book states create_thread() function create a thread. No trace on how it create a thread, what create_thread() function actually do!!. The same kind of descriptions about all RTOS calls. This book might better appeal if it focuses on inner working of RTOS than vague descriptions about it.

Good for newcomers to embedded systems
Review written by: RTOS Novice From San Jose, CA
The book walks you through all the steps of embedded systems development before going into the details of RTOS, which is the main focus of the book. It is a great book for the intended readers of the book, as stated up front in the book.

Good VxWorks-centric Intro to Real Time OS
Review written by: calvinnme From Fredericksburg, Va
This book is a good introduction to readers who are beginners in the world of embedded programming and real-time operating systems. A real-time OS facilitates the creation of real-time systems, but does not guarantee that they are real-time. Nor does an RTOS necessarily have high throughput. Instead, they enable, through specialized scheduling algorithms and deterministic behavior, the guarantee that system deadlines can be met. Thus a real-time OS is valued more for how quickly it can respond to an event than for the total amount of work it can do.
This book, written by a senior architect at Wind River Systems, is very VxWorks centric. This is OK, since VxWorks is one of the better commercial real-time operating systems out there, having been on the scene in various forms since 1983. This book will introduce you to all of the terminology you will need to be familiar with before you write code that uses VxWorks. I highly recommend it for anybody who is or is planning to get involved in embedded systems. Since so many robot designers end up programming with VxWorks, I highly recommend it especially to them. The concepts of scheduling, tasks, semaphores, queues, exceptions, and timers are all covered very well, even for those readers who have no previous exposure to operating systems in general. There is plenty of pseudocode and instructive diagrams. However, when it comes to actually writing an embedded system with VxWorks, no book that I know of actually gives out that kind of knowledge. There is no substitute to attaching yourself to a person experienced in this sort of work and learning by example. But first, read this book so that you understand what it is that they are teaching you. For real newbies, read "Designing Embedded Hardware" to get an idea of what devices make up an embedded system, and then "Programming Embedded Systems with C and C++" to get an idea of how these devices are controlled. At that point, you will be ready for this book.

No depth
Review written by: John L. Abedor From Santa Monica, CA, USA
Please have a look before you buy! Be sure to check
out the vacuous tables that inform us, for example,
that the "Suspend" operation"Suspends a task" and
so on for seven other task-related operations. This
is a quibble, but I think the lack of content in the
tables reflects a grave shortcoming of the book as
a whole: there's just not much there. In my opinion
part of the problem is lack of specificity. I wish
that the authors had focused on a single real operating
system (e.g. VxWorks) with actual code examples rather
attempting the very difficult task of covering the
entire real-time operating system landscape.