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Embedded Linux(R): Hardware, Software, and Interfacing (Sams White Books)
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by Craig Hollabaugh
Sales Rank: 134453
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional March 17, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672322269
ISBN-13: 978-0672322266
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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Embedded Linux covers the development and implementation of interfacing applications on an embedded Linux platform. It includes a comprehensive discussion of platform selection, crosscompilation, kernel compilation, root filesystem creation, booting, remote debugging, real-world interfacing, application control, data collection, archiving, and presentation.
This book includes serial, parallel, memory I/O, USB, and interrupt-driven hardware designs using x86-, StrongARM®-, and PowerPC®-based target boards. In addition, you will find simple device driver module code that connects external devices to the kernel, and network integration code that connects embedded Linux field devices to a centralized control center. Examples teach hardware developers how to store and activate field bits and deliver process information using open source software. If you are a hardware developer, software developer, system integrator, or product manager who's begun exploring embedded Linux for interfacing applications, this book is for you. - Select an embedded Linux platform (x86, StrongARM®, and PowerPC® architectures are covered)
- Create a cross-compiling and debugging development environment
- Build a custom Linux kernel for each architecture
- Create a minimum root filesystem
- Boot the custom Linux kernel on three target boards with x86, SA-1110, and MPC860 microprocessors
- Remote debug programs running on a target board across an ethernet network using GNU tools
- Connect data acquisition and control electronics/peripherals using the microprocessor's serial, parallel, memory I/O, and USB interfaces
- Measure average interrupt latencies for the x86, SA-1110, and MPC860 microprocessors and design an interrupt-driven process timer with 1mS accuracy
- Interface the peripherals to the kernel and applications using device driver modules
- Collect, control, store, and present data via open source protocols and applications
- Analyze embedded Linux vendor product offerings
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About The Author
Craig Hollabaugh, Ph.D., first administered Sun® and Digital® workstations while pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His first embedded design, US Patent #5,222,027, remotely monitors a petroleum process. In 1995, at Wireless Scientific®, he began using Linux for industrial control.
Craig currently consults for three companies from his home in Ouray, Colorado. He developed the Proteus Scalable Node™ code for Antec. At Clifton, Weiss and Associates, he's a member of a carrier-class telecommunications network design team. He's also designing FM, MP3, and Bluetooth™ headset electronics for Arriva®.
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Customer Reviews & Comments
As of 4/2004, the book relies on a free distribution of Hard Hat linux that is no longer available on Montavista's site (as they charge $25K for a single seat, I guess they felt they were giving too much away ;-) HOWEVER: Hollanaugh has copies of them with all of his scripts on his site, so look for them there. His scripts are also now modified to point to the new locations. Though even this distribution is somewhat out of date, this book does a pretty reasonable job of getting you through it all. I found finding free (useful, current) distributions of embedded linux very hard to find but eventually did.. Check out www.denx.de and store.yahoo.com/snapgear/snemlidi.html for current multiplatform distributions. The denx distribution ELDK appears to have morphed from the original Hard Hat distibution as many of the utilities still exist, I used this and was able to "generally" follow along. It's a more recent distribution and supports more platforms (at least for the PPC). I would definately repurchase this book again.. His site is: http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/overview.shtml
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