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Foundations of Embedded Systems and C++

  • Overview of embedded system architectures
  • Key challenges in embedded software development
  • Evaluating the suitability of C++ for microcontrollers and embedded platforms
  • Balancing abstraction, performance, and resource limitations

Setting Up the Embedded C++ Development Environment

  • Configuring the embedded development toolchain
  • Utilizing compilers, debuggers, and build systems
  • Interacting with target devices
  • Building and deploying embedded applications

Object-Oriented Programming in Embedded Contexts

  • Core tenets of object-oriented design
  • Implementing classes and objects within resource-constrained environments
  • Leveraging encapsulation and modular design
  • Effectively applying object-oriented methods in embedded applications

Advanced C++ Capabilities for Embedded Development

  • Managing inheritance and polymorphism
  • Virtual functions and assessing runtime overhead
  • Templates and preventing unnecessary code expansion
  • Optimizing performance with inline functions

Memory Management and Resource Optimization

  • Navigating memory constraints in embedded systems
  • Considerations for stack and heap utilization
  • Strategies for dynamic memory management
  • Preventing memory fragmentation and code bloat

Error Handling and Safety Protocols

  • Exception handling within embedded environments
  • Engineering reliable and predictable software
  • Applying defensive programming techniques
  • Addressing C++ requirements for safety-critical systems

Utilizing C++ Standard Libraries in Embedded Scenarios

  • Selecting suitable standard library components
  • Minimizing resource consumption
  • Employing custom libraries and embedded-friendly alternatives
  • Writing efficient and maintainable code

Startup Sequences, Hardware Interaction, and Debugging

  • The startup sequence for embedded applications
  • Initialization routines
  • Debugging C++ applications on target hardware
  • Diagnosing performance and runtime anomalies

Real-Time Programming and Operating Systems

  • Essentials of real-time systems
  • Integrating with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
  • Task scheduling and timing constraints
  • Creating responsive and deterministic applications

Interoperability Between C and C++

  • Integrating C and C++ codebases
  • Invoking C libraries from C++
  • Managing mixed-language embedded projects
  • Strategies for migrating from C to C++

Object-Oriented Modelling and UML

  • Applying UML for embedded software design
  • Modelling classes and system components
  • Converting designs into efficient embedded code
  • Enhancing maintainability through structured design

Practical Embedded C++ Application Workshop

  • Building an embedded application with C++
  • Implementing optimization and safety techniques
  • Testing and debugging on a target device
  • Reviewing best practices and subsequent steps

Requirements

  • A general familiarity with C++
 21 Hours

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