Hintenaus P. Engineering Embedded Systems: Physics, Programs, Circuits

Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015. — 359 p. — ISBN: 9783319106793Embedded systems acquire data directly from the physical world and directly act on the physical world. Building such systems requires not only elaborate skills when it comes to designing hardware and software, a solid understanding of the physics of the application and of the physical behavior of the devices used for building the system is at least equally important. Its main audience are students of computer science and related disciplines in the last year undergraduate and first year graduate levels, who are adventurous enough to pack their computers and leave cyberspace for the physical world, where nature decides whether an idea works or not. A practicing engineer may also find entertainment in the more advanced chapters of the book. A reader should be familiar with engineering mathematics and with signals and systems in particular. Familiarity with a simulation tool such as the Simulink system helps as does familiarity with computer algebra software like MAXIMA, Maple, or Mathematica. No knowledge of physics beyond what is taught in high school is necessary.Models and Experiments
Tools—Mainly Mathematics
Voltage, Current, Basic Components
Digital Electronics
Programmable Devices—Software and Hardware
Analog Circuits—Signal Conditioning and Conversion
Energy Conversion—Power Supplies
Energy Conversion—Motor Contro
Data Recovery from Noise—Lock-In Detection
Short-Range Radar
Infrared Spectrometry
Appendixes
Block DiagramsCircuit Diagrams
The One-Sided Laplace Transform
Answers to Selected Exercises