Ken Arnold is an experienced embedded systems designer and president of HiTech Equipment, Inc., an embedded systems design firm located in San Diego, California. He also teaches courses in embedded hardware and software design at the University of California-San Diego.Gives the reader an integrated hardware/software approach to embedded controller designStresses a "worst case" design approach for the harsh environments in which embedded systems are often usedIncludes design examples to make important concepts come alive

Ken Arnold is the founder and former president of Paragon Engineering Services, Houston, Texas. He has more that 40 years of experience in the operations and project management. He is actively involved in production facility design. He has served on numerous SPE, API, and government advisory committees as an expert on oil handling, produced-water treating, and safety aspects producing operations.

Preface; Review of electronics fundamentals; Microcontroller concepts; Worst-case timing; Loading, analysis, and design; Memory technologies and interfacing; CPU BUS interface and timing; Detailed design example; Programmable logic devices; BASIC I/O interfaces; Other interfaces and BUS cycles; Other useful stuff; Other interfaces; Index