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Practical Aspects of Embedded System Design

using Microcontrollers

Jivan S. Parab • Santosh A. Shinde

Vinod G. Shelake • Rajanish K. Kamat

Gourish M. Naik

Practical Aspects of

Embedded System Design

using Microcontrollers

Jivan S. Parab

Santosh A. Shinde

Goa University

Shivaji University

Goa, 403 206

Kolhapur, 416 004

India

Vinod G. Shelake

Dr. Rajanish K. Kamat

Shivaji University

Kolhapur, 416 004

India

Dr. Gourish M. Naik

Goa University

Goa, 403 206

India

ISBN 978-1-4020-8392-1

e-ISBN 978-1-4020-8393-8

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Foreword

My perception regarding embedded systems goes on the following lines “Embedded

Systems are very simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity” and

I know that authors of this book are the genius in this subject. With their many years

of experience in industry consultancy and academia they posses the arts and science

of designing successful, working and useful Embedded Systems. The “Art”, part

comes with a mix of knowledge, experience, intuition and creativeness that the

readers will witness from the various case studies developed in this book. While

their “Science” and “Engineering” foundations are evident from the adopted design

methodologies guaranteeing correctness with proper hardware selection and time

as well as memory efficient code. In fact this is the second book on this subject by

the same team. I have gone through the first one “Exploring C for Microcontrollers:

A hands on Approach” published by Springer and found it very informative. I learnt

that the book is popular with embedded designers in US and UK. The same

approach of “Learning by Doing” as in explored in the first book has also been

extended for this second book.

The most significant aspect about embedded systems that I like is its unique

synergy between hardware and software. An Embedded Engineer is supposed to be

an expert in multiple domains such as microcontrollers, FPGAs, digital logic,

C programming, sensors, instrumentation and last but not the least even nuts and

bolts i.e. mechatronics. With a continued interaction with some of the authors of

this book, I found them to possess expertise in this field having multiple facets.

Namely Dr. Gourish Naik has been instrumental since his IISc days to incorporate

Embedded Systems aspects in academics. Dr. R.K. Kamat who was offered a posi-

tion in Motorola in Europe possess great capability in design and the development

of Embedded Systems.

Now let me focus on the very need of this book. As all of us are aware since their

inception, embedded systems have caused a tremendous change in society, a

change that is continuing from last few decades at a pace surpassing every imagina-

tion. With their increasing significance in world markets, there is a scarcity of

experienced embedded system professionals. I learnt that embedded systems devel-

opment professionals have handicapped Hong Kong industrialists’ ability to exploit

high added value market potentials in embedded systems products. In Europe, the

European Commission has recognized the importance of embedded systems by

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