• ARM Architecture Reference Manual (2nd Edition)
• ARM System-on-Chip Architecture (2nd Edition)
• Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
• Programming Embedded Systems: With C and GNU Development Tools, 2nd Edition
• MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM)

Very clear and detailed, good reference
Review written by: Daniel J. Romaniuk From Dubai, UAE
The authors have done a wonderful job of taking something complicated and making it very simple, without dumbing it down. They explain why and how, and the material is well organized. There are useful reference tables scattered throughout. There is no attempt at humor, and I'm grateful for it.

Highlights include discussions about registers, Arm multiple load/store instructions, the Arm function calling convention, tactics for writing fast C and assembler, DSP implementation, memory management, and assembler code for things like division. The chapters on firmware and basic OS implementation each show a simple yet functional implementation.

My only complaint is that there's nothing practical in here about IO, not even JTAG. The authors have limited themselves to the ARM core only, perhaps because there are many differences between the microprocessors that use it. This makes the title a bit misleading - in my view a System Developer's Guide should have enough information so that you can at least write a "Hello World" program of some sort, even if it doesn't work on everybody's hardware.

So to do anything practical, you'll have to track down a lot more documentation for your specific microcontroller. Still, five stars for the clear, detailed information on the topics it does cover. I will certainly be using it as a reference.

A System Software Engineer
Review written by: K. Addison From Seattle, WA
This is the best book I've seen for the ARM series of processors. I have developed with many processors, on and off the Job and am now planning to develop for the ARM7 and ARM9 processors; particularly the AT91 and the AT91SAM7 series of processors by ATMEL. Base on the processors' hardware specs they are perfect for the small time developer. But, when looking the ARM's instruction set, it appears that programming them requires a steep learning curve.

This book will easily reduce my learning curve, at the very least, by more than half. It is clear, comprehensive, and to the point.

In a world that has strict requiresments on performance, power, as well as development time, a developer has to ARM himself. This book will show you how to do just that.

Excellent for a beginner
Review written by: K. Ng From Houston, TX United States
You know C, you know pointers, you know how to program. But what you need is something to teach you more about creating firmware applications. How to actually make something work! What actually goes on inside this black-box that we call the ARM core? How do you make it do some simple DSP?

There should be a course in every college that basically teaches the information contained in this book!

Very Satisfied
Review written by: Chris R. Thompson From Long Beach, CA USA
Product came in faster than expected and it was in new, excellent condition.

extremely useful
Review written by: E. Boks From Arnhem, Netherlands
This book covers many aspects of programming the ARM familiy, including a surprisingly thorough discussion on fixed-point DSP computation.

Having come from another architecture, this book really got me going on ARM. It complements the documentation manufacturers usually provide for their ARM chips in that it covers the ARM core much more in-depth.

The book discusses everything from register usage to memory management units. If you want to become an expert programmer in C/Assembly on ARM systems, you must buy this book.

Also included is a nice comparison of the ARM and Gnu assembler directives, which came in handy when I converted an ARM assembly file to the Gnu syntax.