++Effective Real Time Embedded C and C

1. Introduction

2. Embedded C
• Real time C
• Embedded C
• Writing code in Kernel Space

3. Elements of C/C++
• Type Specifiers and Qualifiers
• Type coercion and conversion
• Struct layout
• Uses of union
• Bitfields
• Enum v #define
• Typedef
• Unscrambling declarations (cdecl)
• Floating-point and fixed-point number systems
• IEEE Standard 754
• Importance of good structure
• Quality and style

4. Effective Pointers
• Arrays and pointers; compatibility and incompatibility
• The principle of dynamic memory allocation
• Void pointers
• Implementing basic data structures: pointers, arrays, queues, stacks, lists
• Function pointers: basics, callbacks, state machine
• Optimizations with pointers
• Variable sized structures

5. Memory Management Architecture
• Caching
• Hardware memory management
• Sections of a program
• Mapping of program in memory
• Dynamic memory allocation

6. Intertask Communication
• Intertask Synchronization: Race Conditions and Critical Sections
• Shared Memory
• Locks
• Mutexes
• Semaphores
• Deadlocks
• Signals
• Message Queues

7. The Toolchain
• Pre-processor compiler directives and cross compilers
• Macros v functions
• The Linker and memory sections
• Using the toolchain to your advantage
• What happens before main
• What is happening at runtime
• Estimation of stack requirements

8. Optimizations
• Tips for optimizing embedded C/C++ code

9. Writing Safer C
• MISRA-C and CWE™
• Compiler warnings
• Hard learned pitfalls
• Coding style and banned API
• Preparing for debug

10. Hardware Programming Model
• Interrupts – handlers and dispatchers
• Hardware and Software interrupts
• Contexts

11. Timing
• The challenge in measuring time
• Hardware and Software timers
• Watchdog timer
• Real time debug vs. time

12. Object oriented C
• Implementing OOP with C (OOC)
• Mixing C and C++

13. Inheritance and OO Design
• Inheritance models
• The use of virtual functions

14. Embedded C++
• C vs. C++
• Benefits of embedded C++ (EC++)
• Restrictions for EC++

15. C++ Resource Management
• Managing contained members
• The Rule of the Big Three
• Garbage collection
• Smart pointers
• Resource managing classes

16. Templates and Generic Programming
• Understand the two meanings of typename
• Know how to access names in templatized base classes
• Parameter-independent code
• Traits
• Template metaprogramming

17. The Standard Template Library
• STL Components
• Containers
• Iterators
• Algorithms
• Using emplace
• Manipulating Algorithms
• Container Elements
• Extending the STL

18. Input/Output Using Stream Classes
• Common Background of I/O Streams
• Fundamental Stream Classes and Objects
• Standard Stream Operators << and >>
• Standard Input/Output Functions
• Manipulators
• Formatting
• Internationalization
• File Access
• Connecting Input and Output Streams
• Stream Classes for Strings
• Input/Output Operators for User-Defined Types
• The Stream Buffer Classes
• Performance Issues

19. Summary