Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Third Edition

Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, 3e, presents essential knowledge on embedded systems technology and techniques. Updated for today's embedded systems design methods, this edition features new examples including digital signal processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical systems. Author Marilyn Wolf covers the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology plus software, operating systems, networks, consumer devices, and more.

Like the previous editions, this textbook:

• Uses real processors to demonstrate both technology and techniques
• Shows readers how to apply principles to actual design practice
• Stresses necessary fundamentals that can be applied to evolving technologies and helps readers gain facility to design large, complex embedded systems

Updates in this edition include:

• Description of cyber-physical systems: physical systems with integrated computation to give new capabilities
• Exploration of the PIC and TI OMAP processors
• High-level representations of systems using signal flow graphs
• Enhanced material on interprocess communication and buffering in operating systems
• Design examples include an audio player, digital camera, cell phone, and more

About the Author

Marilyn Wolf is Farmer Distinguished Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989. She was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007. Her research interests included embedded computing, embedded video and computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the ASEE Terman Award and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core member.