Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming

Christopher Kormanyos' book provides a practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++, covering language technologies, components, and mathematical methods. It uses the latest C++20 specification and includes new example projects and reader suggestions. The target audience is students and professionals interested in real-time C++, with prior experience in microcontroller electronics and embedded systems programming.

Format: Hardback
Length: 510 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2021
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

With this book, Christopher Kormanyos delivers a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. It is divided into three parts plus several appendices. Part I provides a foundation for real-time C++ by covering language technologies, including object-oriented methods, template programming, and optimization. Next, part II presents detailed descriptions of a variety of C++ components that are widely used in microcontroller programming. It details some of C++'s most powerful language elements, such as class types, templates, and the STL, to develop components for microcontroller register access, low-level drivers, custom memory management, embedded containers, multitasking, etc. Finally, part III describes mathematical methods and generic utilities that can be employed to solve recurring problems in real-time C++. The appendices include a brief C++ language tutorial, information on the real-time C++ development environment, and instructions for building GNU GCC cross-compilers and a microcontroller circuit.

For this fourth edition, the most recent specification of C++20 is used throughout the text. Several sections on new C++20 functionality have been added, and various others reworked to reflect changes in the standard. Also, several new example projects ranging from introductory to advanced level are included, and existing ones extended, and various reader suggestions have been incorporated. Efficiency is always in focus, and numerous examples are backed up with runtime measurements and size analyses that quantify the true costs of the code down to the very last byte and microsecond.

The target audience of this book mainly consists of students and professionals interested in real-time C++. Readers should be familiar with C or another pro.

Weight: 970g
Dimension: 512 x 259 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783662629956
Edition number: 4th ed. 2021