Real-Time C++ (3 ed)

Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming 3rd Edition

With this book, Christopher Kormanyos delivers a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. It is divided into three parts plus several appendices. Part I provides a foundation for real-time C++ by covering language technologies, including object-oriented methods, template programming, and optimization. Next, part II presents detailed descriptions of a variety of C++ components that are widely used in microcontroller programming. It details some of C++’s most powerful language elements, such as class types, templates, and the STL, to develop components for microcontroller register access, low-level drivers, custom memory management, embedded containers, multitasking, etc. Finally, part III describes mathematical methods and generic utilities that can be employed to solve recurring problems in real-time C++. The appendices include a brief C++ language tutorial, information on the real-time C++ development environment, and instructions for building GNU GCC cross-compilers and a microcontroller circuit.

For this third edition, the most recent specification of C++17 in ISO/IEC 14882:2017 is used throughout the text. Several sections on new C++17 functionality have been added, and various others reworked to reflect changes in the standard. Also, several new sample projects are introduced, existing ones are extended, and different user suggestions have been incorporated.  No libraries other than those specified in the language standard itself are used to facilitate portability. Efficiency is always in focus, and numerous examples are backed up with real-time performance measurements and size analyses that quantify the true costs of the code down to the very last byte and microsecond.

This book's target audience mainly consists of students and professionals interested in real-time C++. Readers should be familiar with C or another programming language and will benefit most if they have some previous experience with microcontroller electronics and the performance and size issues prevalent in embedded systems programming.