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Modern digital devices used in homes, cars, and wearables contain highly sophisticated computing capabilities composed of embedded systems that generate, receive, and process digital data streams at rates up to multiple gigabits per second. This book will show you how to use Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and high-speed digital circuit design to create your own cutting-edge digital systems. Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems takes you through the fundamental concepts of embedded systems, including real-time operation and the Internet of Things (IoT), and the architecture and capabilities of the latest generation of FPGAs. Using powerful free tools for FPGA design and electronic circuit design, you’ll learn how to design, build, test, and debug high-performance FPGA-based IoT devices. The book will also help you get up to speed with embedded system design, circuit design, hardware construction, firmware development, and debugging to produce a high-performance embedded device – a network-based digital oscilloscope. You’ll explore techniques such as designing four-layer printed circuit boards with high-speed differential signal pairs and assembling the board using surface-mount components. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid understanding of the concepts underlying embedded systems and FPGAs and will be able to design and construct your own sophisticated digital devices.

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This book is for software developers, IoT engineers, and anyone who wants to understand the process of developing high-performance embedded systems. You’ll also find this book useful if you want to learn about the fundamentals of FPGA development and all aspects of firmware development in C and C++. Familiarity with the C language, digital circuits, and electronic soldering is necessary to get started.

What you will learn

Understand the fundamentals of real-time embedded systems and sensors

Discover the capabilities of FPGAs and how to use FPGA development tools

Learn the principles of digital circuit design and PCB layout with KiCad

Construct high-speed circuit board prototypes at low cost

Design and develop high-performance algorithms for FPGAs

Develop robust, reliable, and efficient firmware in C

Thoroughly test and debug embedded device hardware and firmware

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Umut Durak Feb 25, 2021

This is another comprehensive compilation from Jim Ledin. It renders almost all the topics for embedded systems development with state-of-the-art tools, infrastructures and target platforms. What I liked a lot about this book is its structure. These types of books are usually references. You do not read them cover to cover, rather dive into the chapter of your interest. However, Jim Ledin managed to come up with an exciting story line. Reader starts with high performance embedded systems requirements, and key technologies that make it possible to like FPGAs, modern RTOS, network fabrics, then engages in to design and construction section where the real magic starts. Jim Ledin uses tutorials extensively all through the book. That will surely make many reader feel at home, who use tutorials when they would like to learn something new. You start with your first FPGA project, and proceed to circuit design with KiCad and soldering it. Implementation and testing real-time firmware section at the end introduces various important aspects of practicing embedded software engineering profession. The list includes coding guidelines, static code analysis, version control, requirements traceability and code coverage. I would recommend the book for senior and graduate level CS and EE students, as well as embedded systems enthusiastic and professionals. I am sure they will all enjoy the material presented.

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Thanks Jul 13, 2022

So far it’s highly well written in a wholeness and completeness logic wise in which illogical guessing is none existent and real world application is comprehensively explained. I would highly recommend this book.

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ScottE Mar 12, 2021

This book is solid and fast introduction to the workflow and tools needed to build embedded systems. This book rapidly covers the basics of RTOSs, FPGAs, sampling, schematic capture/layout with KiCAD, firmware and debugging./testing. This book covers a lot of ground and touches on some theory and walks through installing the tools for each technology. It also provides a detailed walk through a basic end to end example.The title is a bit misleading as this is an introduction, not an architecture book. This is a great introductions, to high performance embedded systems (here high performance would be defined as including FPGAs and RTOS). If you are a computer science major who want to take those next steps into IoT beyond Arduino or are an instructor selecting a fast-paced "intro to embedded system" course then this might be a choice. If you are a EE who needs to get a quick FPGA introduction so you can add FPGAs to your designs or a firmware engineer who needs to add some layout skills then there are so good chapters here to boot strap you into new skills. If you are a principal embedded systems engineer designing the generation Mars lander then you will not fined a deep discussion of architecture and this is not for you.This book covers a lot ground. Yes, there is some theory. Yes there are introduction to current tools. Yes, there are practical tutorials. The topics essentially covers the main areas of a good embedded systems degree. Is this the right balance? Like most things in engineering , it depends on your needs. Each chapter would need a three class series for a solid grounding so this is only a fast survey, but a good one to get a good picture of what high performance embedded is all about. This survey does provide that big picture that would provide a map for students as they dig into details in their upper division classes. Is this all you need to architect that mars lander, no. If you are a cloud python programmer and want to get a job as a senior FPGA you will need a lot more education, training and experience, but his book is a good place to start. One concern is that the tools installation instructions may not age well as tools update.Disclosure, I responded to an ad and received a free e-copy of this book, but I have no other relationship with the author or publisher.

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Jacob Mar 03, 2021

(Full disclosure, I received a copy of this book early for review purposes when I followed Jim on LinkedIn after reading his book on Modern Computer Architecture. I was not paid for the review nor has the author had any copy approval)Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems is a brilliant and thoughtful insight into the emergent world of high-performance, low-power edge computing. The book covers everything from the very basics all the way up to implementing a full system in FPGA logic on the Arty A7 development board. Jim gives the reader a solid introduction to the world of digital logic in the form of various logic gates and crucial signalling elements like DSPs and ADCs before proceeding with a brief yet thorough explanation of everything from real-time operating systems to sensors such as LiDAR. If you're looking for the "bible" of Computer Architecture, I suggest you pick up a copy of "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Harris & Harris and/or the oft-coveted "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessey and Patterson as well as this, but if you've either covered the minutiae of CA already or don't yet want to dive into those depths, AHPES is a fantastic introduction to the topic in general. However, this book was not designed with the purpose in mind of analysing semiconductor materials and their chemical structure - it is designed to teach practical and tangible lessons in the design of efficient, fast and modern embedded systems, and it does so perfectly. If you're new to the industry, interested in the hardware from any perspective or even an industry veteran, everyone stands to learn from Jim Ledin's wealth of knowledge and experience. I have no doubt that the books in his series will be responsible for introducing and educating many an aspiring computer architect - and those of us lucky enough to have found his works at the beginning of our own journeys into the world of Computer Architecture owe him a debt of gratitude for taking the time to write out and share everything he has learnt and developed over his time in the industry.

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Nicola Guida Apr 25, 2021

The book really starts from the basics in order to build an orderly and structured knowledge of Embedded Systems. It is especially suited for those who are interested in IoT and hi-performance applications.I mainly appreciated the sections on FPGA, RTOS and sensors.

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