"The companion DVD contains 4GB of addition resources including: videos, all images from the text, documentation, project code, a Visio design example, articles related to real - time embedded systems, Linux, and more!" - -back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Real - time embedded theory : Introduction - -System resources -- Processing -- Resources -- Memory -- Multisource services -- Soft rel - time services -- Designing real- time embedded components : Embedded system components -- Traditional hard real - time operating systems -- Open source real - time operating systems -- Integrating embedded Linux into real - time systems -- Debugging components -- Performance tuning -- High availability and reliability design -- Putting it all together : System life cycle -- Continuous media applications -- Robotic applications -- Computer vision applications.

This book is intended to provide senior undergraduate or graduate students in electrical engineering or computer science with a balance of fundamental theory, review of industry practice, and hands-on experience to prepare for a career in the real-time embedded system industries. It is also provides practicing engineers with the necessary background to apply real-time theory to the design of embedded components and systems. New to this edition are chapters focused on key technology advancements in embedded systems with wider coverage of real-time architectures. The focus remains the RTOS (Real-Time Operating System), but use of Linux for soft real-time, hybrid FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) architectures and advancements in multi-core system-on-chip (SoC), as well as software strategies for asymmetric and symmetric multiprocessing (AMP and SMP) relevant to real-time embedded systems, have been added. --