This book and CD-ROM set details the interaction of the firmware and hardware during the critical first few seconds after the microprocessor is powered up. It also describes minimal footprint features that can make firmware development more convenient and more productive. By focusing on these critical junctures where software meets hardware, readers are given a powerful and concrete introduction to what makes embedded development different from application development. Each critical step in the start-up process and the development process is explained in detail.

Then the book shows how to combine these various critical components (flash file system, extensive command line interface through serial port and/or UDP, TFTP/XMODEM data transfer, DHCP/BOOTP startup and more) into a sophisticated embedded system boot platform that can be used to implement a run-time environment on a wide range of microprocessor based systems.

The companion CD-ROM includes the complete source and user documentation for the platform plus some of the MicroCross GNU X-Tools compiled for Windows are included for cross compilation and debug.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 : A Had Start
Chapter 2 : Getting Started
Chapter 3 : Introducing MicroMonitor
Chapter 4 : Assembly Required
Chapter 5 : Command Line Interface
Chapter 6 : Interfacing to Flash Memory
Chapter 7 : A Flash File System
Chapter 8 : Executing Scripts
Chapter 9 : Network Connectivity
Chapter 10 : File/Data Transfer
Chapter 11 : Adding the Application
Chapter 12 : Monitor-Based Debugging
Chapter 13 : Porting MicroMonitor to the ColdFire MCF5272

Conclusion

Appendix A
Appendix B

Index