Embedded Firmware Solutions : Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things

Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans.Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot and EFI Development Kit (tianocore) and Chromebook, this is the first book that combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization.What you’ll learnUnderstand the key differences between PC and embedded ecosystems in terms of firmware needs.Thorough underpinning of Intel’s firmware solutions.How to build a firmware stack for Quark.How to integrate FSP with a bootloader, by studying the hands-on example of Coreboot and UEFI.How to make a smart «build-it or buy-it» decision when starting a new embedded project. Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot and EFI Development Kit (tianocore) and Chromebook, this book combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization. You'll learn to understand the key differences between PC and embedded ecosystems in terms of firmware needs; get a thorough underpinning of Intel's firmware solutions; learn how to build a firmware stack for Quark; discover how to integrate FSP with a bootloader by studying the hands-on example of Coreboot and UEFI; know how to make a smart "build-it or buy-it" decision when starting a new embedded project. -- Edited summary from book Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel's new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans. Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot and EFI Development Kit (tianocore) and Chromebook, this is the first book that combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization.