Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook
Practical recipes to help you build robust and secure embedded applications on Linux
Igor Viarheichyk
- 412 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
- Disponible sur iOS et Android
Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook
Practical recipes to help you build robust and secure embedded applications on Linux
Igor Viarheichyk
Ă propos de ce livre
Explore various constraints and challenges that embedded developers encounter in their daily tasks and learn how to build effective programs using the latest standards of C++
Key Features
- Get hands-on experience in developing a sample application for an embedded Linux-based system
- Explore advanced topics such as concurrency, real-time operating system (RTOS), and C++ utilities
- Learn how to test and debug your embedded applications using logs and profiling tools
Book Description
Developing applications for embedded systems may seem like a daunting task as developers face challenges related to limited memory, high power consumption, and maintaining real-time responses. This book is a collection of practical examples to explain how to develop applications for embedded boards and overcome the challenges that you may encounter while developing.
The book will start with an introduction to embedded systems and how to set up the development environment. By teaching you to build your first embedded application, the book will help you progress from the basics to more complex concepts, such as debugging, logging, and profiling. Moving ahead, you will learn how to use specialized memory and custom allocators. From here, you will delve into recipes that will teach you how to work with the C++ memory model, atomic variables, and synchronization. The book will then take you through recipes on inter-process communication, data serialization, and timers. Finally, you will cover topics such as error handling and guidelines for real-time systems and safety-critical systems.
By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in building robust and secure embedded applications with C++.
What you will learn
- Get to grips with the fundamentals of an embedded system
- Understand how to optimize code for the targeted hardware platforms
- Explore cross-compilation, build types, and remote debugging
- Discover the importance of logging for debugging and root cause analysis of failures
- Uncover concepts such as interrupt service routine, memory model, and ring buffer
- Recognize the need for custom memory management in embedded systems
- Delve into static code analyzers and tools to improve code quality
Who this book is for
This book is for developers, electronic hardware professionals, and software and system-on-chip engineers who want to build effective embedded programs in C++. Familiarity with the C++ programming language is expected, but no previous knowledge of embedded systems is required.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Multithreading and Synchronization
- Exploring thread support in C++
- Exploring data synchronization
- Using condition variables
- Using atomic variables
- Using the C++ memory model
- Exploring lock-free synchronization
- Using atomic variables in shared memory
- Exploring async functions and futures
Exploring thread support in C++
How to do it...
- In your ~/test working directory, create a subdirectory called threads.
- Use your favorite text editor to create a threads.cpp file in the threads subdirectory. Copy the code snippet into the threads.cpp file:
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
void worker(int index) {
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
std::cout << "Worker " << index << " begins" << std::endl;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
std::cout << "Worker " << index << " ends" << std::endl;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1));
}
}
int main() {
std::thread worker1(worker, 1);
std::thread worker2(worker, 2);
worker1.join();
worker2.join();
std::cout << "Done" << std::endl;
}
- Create a file called CMakeLists.txt in the loop subdirectory, with the following content:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.1)
project(threads)
add_executable(threads threads.cpp)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR arm)
SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "--std=c++11")
target_link_libraries(threads pthread)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-g++)
How it works...
std::thread worker1(worker, 1);
std::thread worker2(worker, 2);
- A function that runs in the thread.
- A parameter for the function. Since we pass the previously defined worker function as a thread function, the parameter should match its typeâin our case, it is int.
Exploring data synchronization
How to do it...
- In your ~/test working directory, create a subdirectory called mutex.
- Use your favorite text editor to create a mutex.cpp file in the mutex subdirectory. Copy the code snippet into the mutex.cpp file:
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <mutex>
#include <thread>
std::mutex m;
void worker(int index) {
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
{
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(m);
std::cout << "Worker " << index << " begins" << std::endl;
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(50));
std::cout << "Worker " << index << " ends" << std::endl;
}
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1));
}
}
int main() {
std::thread worker1(worker, 1);
std::thread worker2(worker, 2);
worker1.join();
worker2.join();
std::cout << "Done" << std::endl;
}
- Create a file called CMakeLists.txt in the loop subdirectory, with the following content:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.1)
project(mutex)
add_executable(mutex mutex.cpp)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)
set(CMAKE_SYS...