Real-Time Embedded Multithreading : Using ThreadX and ARM

All you need to know, Dear Reader, is that this book is -- literally -- a selective reprint of Express Logic's ThreadX User's Guide that is available for free download on their site. Differences? It's pared down a bit and a perfunctory chapter on ARM hardware is tacked on. What did the author actually contribute to this book? His 'PhD' for the cover? Also, nearly one third (100 out of 350 pages) of this book is padding: an API reference, a more comprehensive version of which is, yes, again, available for free download from Express Logic. Bottom line: I CANNOT in good conscience recommend this book: first and foremost because 99% of its content is excerpted verbatim from the freely available ThreadX User's Guide and the remaining 1% is covered better elsewhere (for example, in \_ARM System Developer's Guide\_ by Sloss -- a fundamental, extensive, and very well-written book). PS. A side observation: I've never seen a good book from this publisher, CMP (formerly R&D). I just thought I'd share. A complete guide for the developer or student, this text provides an overview of general concepts and terminology, investigates the salient features of the reference processor, thoroughly explores the services and features of the reference RTOS, and culminates with a major case study. Perfect for embedded systems programmers, software engineers, electrical engineers, or firmware engineers with a programming background in C or C++. Use the industry's most popular RTOS/processor combination to develop embedded applications that are small, fast, reliable, and deterministic. Beginning with a discussion of embedded and real-time concepts and terminology, this book uses a specific demon A guide to embedded applications covers such topics as the ARM processor, RTOS, threads, memory management, internal system clock services, and counting semaphores. Although the history of embedded systems is relatively short, the advances and successes of this field have been dramatic.