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Linux for embedded and real-time applications
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Burlington, Mass. : Newnes, 2003
Physical Description:
1v + 1 CD-ROM
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9780750675468
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Accompanied by compact disc : CP 5895

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Linux offers many advantages as an operating system for embedded designs - it's small, portable, scalable, vendor-independent, and based on the open source model. Most Linux books concentrate on desktop and server applications but this text restores the focus to embedded systems.


Table of Contents

The Embedded and Real-time Space
Introducing Linux
The Host Development Environment
BlueCat Linux
Debugging Embedded Software
Kernel Modules and Device Drivers
Embedded Networking
Introduction to Real-time Programming
Linux and Real-time
The RTAI Environment
Posix Threads
Appendix A RTAI Application Programming Interface (API)
Appendix B Posix Threads (Pthreads)Application Programming Interface
Appendix C Why Software Should Not Have Owners