pacman wrote:
> valemike@yahoo.com (Mike V.) wrote in message 
> > Casey <cclremovethispart@cox.net> wrote in message 
> > > pacman said...
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > I figure i'll be a bit more helpful than the smartass above...
> > Go to www.embedded.com and look up the Embedded Systems
> > Programming Magazine. Get the CD of past issues and look at web
> > archives. The contents in the CD will give a lot of useful
> > techniques in embedded and firmware programming than any single
> > book would.
> 
> I think your advice was the most helpful. I will see if any local
> library carries the firmware demystified book by Ed Sutter.

Yes, but which was the most accurate :-)

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pacman <pacman2081@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I think your advice was the most helpful. I will see if any local
> library carries the firmware demystified book by Ed Sutter.


That's an OK book for people looking at high-end (16/32-bit, with flash
filesystems and networking) micros. It's less good for people dealing with
small single-chip systems - but Sutter's writing style is pretty clear,
the code examples are OK and the CD with a load of GCC ports is useful.
If you get hold of Sutter's "Micro Monitor" package (which the book
describes) there is a lot of good source code to read, too. 

pete
-- 
pete@fenelon.com "There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas."

valemike@yahoo.com (Mike V.) wrote in message news:<8188616d.0312270733.62d3abc7@posting.google.com>...
> Casey <cclremovethispart@cox.net> wrote in message news:<JL9Hb.11549$JD6.5101@lakeread04>...
> > pacman said...
> > > Hi,
> > > I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > 
> > Casey
> I figure i'll be a bit more helpful than the smartass above...
> Go to www.embedded.com and look up the Embedded Systems Programming
> Magazine. Get the CD of past issues and look at web archives. The
> contents in the CD will give a lot of useful techniques in embedded
> and firmware programming than any single book would.

I think your advice was the most helpful. I will see if any local
library carries the firmware demystified book by Ed Sutter.

In article <23f45f26.0312281743.6e28c6d0@posting.google.com>, Nick
<hatespammm@yahoo.com> writes
>pacman2081@yahoo.com (pacman) wrote in message news:<7e57dd12.0312261831.1e39e22
>e@posting.google.com>...
>> Hi,
>> I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
>> 
>> -- Peter
>
>
>together  with embedded.com check michael Barr's 'Programming 
>Embedded in C and C++'
>there is another one called 'firmware demystified'' but I haven't
>check it so you'll have to google around or check amazon reviews about
>it.

There is a review of  it on 

www.accu.org

The ACCU has reviews of over 3000 sw/computing books. These are reviews
by named, working engineers who are part of the accu review team.  The
accu does this as a service to it's members as it does not sell books.

The reviews on Amazon are notoriously unreliable. I once got a (miss-
directed) email from an author who was a lecturer telling his class of
50 to do favourable reviews of his book to boost its ratings in Amazon.


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pacman2081@yahoo.com (pacman) wrote in message news:<7e57dd12.0312261831.1e39e22e@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
> 
> -- Peter


together  with embedded.com check michael Barr's 'Programming 
Embedded in C and C++'
there is another one called 'firmware demystified'' but I haven't
check it so you'll have to google around or check amazon reviews about
it.

/NN

Chris Hills wrote:

> In article <u9oksb.cr8.ln@fenelon.com>, Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>
> writes
> 
>>pacman <pacman2081@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
>>>
>>
>>"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", purely because it's the best book on
>>anything and everything, ever.
>>
>>pete
> 
> 
> 
> Thart more to do with hardcore than firmware? 

It's not hardcore, but you'd have to read the book...

In article <u9oksb.cr8.ln@fenelon.com>, Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>
writes
>pacman <pacman2081@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
>> 
>
>"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", purely because it's the best book on
>anything and everything, ever.
>
>pete


Thart more to do with hardcore than firmware? 

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\/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills  Staffs  England    /\/\/\/\/\
/\/\/ chris@phaedsys.org       www.phaedsys.org \/\/
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pacman <pacman2081@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
> 

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", purely because it's the best book on
anything and everything, ever.

pete
-- 
pete@fenelon.com "There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas."

> I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.

Please be more specific. Are you looking for books about best
practices in embedded programming, or books that will teach you how to
develop for some specific product?

Casey <cclremovethispart@cox.net> wrote in message news:<JL9Hb.11549$JD6.5101@lakeread04>...
> pacman said...
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to know if there were good books on firmware.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> Casey
I figure i'll be a bit more helpful than the smartass above...
Go to www.embedded.com and look up the Embedded Systems Programming
Magazine. Get the CD of past issues and look at web archives. The
contents in the CD will give a lot of useful techniques in embedded
and firmware programming than any single book would.