• USB Complete: Everything You Need to Develop Custom USB Peripherals (Complete Guides series)
• USB Mass Storage: Designing and Programming Devices and Embedded Hosts
• Serial Port Complete: COM Ports, USB Virtual COM Ports, and Ports for Embedded Systems (Complete Guides series)
• Embedded Systems Design using the Rabbit 3000 Microprocessor: Interfacing, Networking, and Application Development (Embedded Technology)
• Networking and Internetworking with Microcontrollers

Inedible salad of disembodied pieces of knowledge
Review written by: Nikolay Baklanov From Sugar Land, TX USA
I would say this book belongs to trash category not only because it is poorly structured collection of scrappy material but mainly due to the fact it fails to fulfill its goals stated at the introductory pages - i.e., to answer questions listed therein in a complete self-consistent manner. If you want to see what the superficial knowledge is about, buy this pseudo-book jumping from one receipt to another, returning back to the discussed subject, and so on. I found too many senseless listings and script examples which are aggravated even more with surrounding text detached from any outlined solid canvas with systematic basic idea.

It is not a manual, nor a guide, and it is not either a handbook. It is something like collections of notes alternated with photos of connectors (half-page each), wires, PCB boards, listings, screen-shots, etc. Diagrams are far away from being real engineering charts, protocols are obscured traces of RFC texts, and screenshots are just to be. I better stay away from misleading examples torn out (copy/paste) from miscellaneous examples out of different evaluation boards.

To get a real clue on embedded internet, I would suggest to buy either the "Designing embedded internet devices" by B. DeMuth at al. (plus, you get an insight into the CAN), or "Networking and internetworking with microcontrollers" by F. Eady (plus, I2C discussed). The first one is mostly about TINI, and the second one - on CS8900 controller. Both are a way ahead in covering the embedded Ethernet stuff. My feeling is that you (potentially) can create/program your own embedded device with these 2 books in your hands but no-way to make something working using this "complete" book.

I wouldn't buy this book =(
Review written by: Fco Javier Rodriguez From Mexico City
After reading few pages of the book I felt my self as a fool because of being spent my money on it.



People outside US need to pay a lot more of shipping cost as well as to wait longer. I was waiting for the book very excited, but I got angry when reading it. I would say it is a kind of fraud. The book doesn't cover more than a good TCP tutorial on Internet, however you need to pay and wait for it.



The book is not "Internet complete". The book doesn't cover what internet is. It only mentions some aspects of building a net, but anything else. If you expect to read something about packets, datagrams and so on this is NOT the book for you. If you expect to learn something deeply about chips for LAN, this book is NOT for you. If you expect to know how each layer in the TCP/IP stack works this book is NOT for you. This book is for nothing.



The book is not "Embedded Ethernet". Actually I needed to pay about $50 US and wait 2 weeks just to hear "don't get in troubles, just buy a Rabbit kit, or if you like Java get the TINI card". I have cards for others architectures, but none of them. At this point I hope you may guess how I felt =( . If that is the author's idea of designing embedded systems I have a big problem.



I have some books about TCP/IP and Internet (english/spanish) that are each one far superior to this one, and cover more topics deeply. I use 8, 16 and 32 bits microcontrollers in which I want to implement a TCP/IP stack, that's way I bought the book, but I've just wasted my time and money.



My recomendation is DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. Try instead some tutorials in Internet, and you'll get better results and knowledges.

You got a good knowledge about ethernet reading this book
Review written by: B. M. Reyes From Mexico City
This book has a good understanding about ethernet protocol and hardware topics, the programming part on this network interface is something new for me and improve my knowledge on this matter.

I would call the book INcomplete
Review written by: Edison From United States
This book does talk a lot of things. But not in any details about the embedded design, or provide single "complete" embedded system design, from schematic to programming. It does have pieces from many different places, but none of them seems from one complete project. You can not use this book as a "complete" reference to build an embedded ethernet/Internet project.

The proper name after reading through the book should be "Basic Introductory of Ethernet and Internet to the embedded designer".

Un libro para tener en cuenta
Review written by: Leandro J. Ferrero From Buenos Aires, Argentina
Es un libro excelente, está orientado para Técnicos en electrónica ó Ingenieros, que sepan algo de programación que quieran aprender de cero todo lo que necesitás para utilizar interfaces Ethernet y sus protocolos, para hacer tu dispositivo 100% compatible con las interfaces de hoy en día. Y como si fuera poco, la posibilidad de conectar lo que sea a Internet.

Tiene una estructura que permite leer el libro de multiples formas diferentes a gusto del consumidor, ya que cada tema tiene dos partes, una teórica y una de aplicación. Esto nos permite leer el libro de muchas formas según nuestras necesidades. Ya que si querés saber lo básico para poder armar algo, podés leer la aplicación de ese tema en particular, pero si te interesa profundizar, tienes la parte teorica ahí mismo.

Es un libro que todo técnico ó ingeniero interesado por el networking debería tener en su biblioteca.