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Embedded Software Development with eCos
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Author: Anthony J. Massa, Anthony Massa
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130354732
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (25 November, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 41,809
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Embedded Software Development using an OS
This book gives a step by step method of getting an embedded system up and running using ecos OS. Explains very well in simple terminology "how to put various components together to create what you need". In short, a very good book on ecos in nutshell.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Organization is not its strong point
Currently (as of ECOS 2.0) you need this book in order to get up to speed and programming ECOS. Unfortunately it isn't very well organized and it is very well written.Like many "open source" books, there is a lot of zeal that isn't necessary to communicate the point :-) Lots of discussion about how the source directory is layed out, and then how not everything follows the layout (this is classic open source, here is the standard, but many people don't follow it.) For me I read this book out of order, how to install first, then the examples, then started reading the chapters on internals. The book re-hashes reference documentation on the redhat site, but organizes it a bit better. The book comes with a CD that has cygwin and basically the Gnu Pro kit on it for Windows users. That's great, but I'm a FreeBSD user. There is very little information about using ecos from a shell using ecosconfig & and gdb. That is the books worst failing, there should be a couple of chapters devoted to non-Windows users. (or maybe split the book into an ECOS reference and then a platform users guide). Once you're finally up an running and have gotten your first target "application" to boot, the book is a handy printed reference and it does explain the internals better than the web pages do. All in all, I wanted "ECOS in a Nutshell" and got "Learn ECOS in 21 days"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Great for Windows Users...
The book is a good introduction to eCos, even though much of the book's material can be found in the eCos documentation, available on line. The sample code and accompanying explanations give the reader a leg up on building useful software; unfortunately, all the code is in C, so C++ programmers may have to do a little more digging to get their code working correctly. Finally, while the walk-throughs of installation, configuration, and building are great, they all are based on Cygwin running under Windows. A corresponding section for Linux users would be a useful plus, especially since (from a perusal of the eCos mailing list), build errors under Linux are not uncommon.All things considered, however, the book is a great buy.
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