Designing Embedded Communications Software

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Summary: all basic concepts
Review: Basic concepts to beginners or students.
It also lacks for implementation details.
Most of the them are not new to an experienced programmer.


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Summary: An excellent book on embedded communication software
Review: I found this book extremely useful. It is a "must have" for all communication software developers. It is one of the very few books that truly focuses on software issues in communication systems detailing various factors involved in software design. The book is targetted both at new and experienced software developers and is a good "one place" resource.
The book explains the design issues with respect to using data structures such as state tables for implementing FSMs and tables for configuration, statistics etc. I found this very useful. The chapter on buffer and timer management discusses various schemes for their efficient management. This is an important area where a lot of optimizations can be made and the book has helped me to better understand the issues related to the same.
Sridhar has indeed done a god job in compiling this book together.

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Summary: solid basics but was it proof read?
Review: I have been working on embedded communications for about 7 years now and must say - so far so good. Much of the information is this book is good for people that have not done this before or are new in their career. There is a lot of valuable information and this would work well as a primer. Having said that the proof reading is terrible - some stuff could have been caught by a spell checker! Some examples of errors that made it into publication:
Letters missing at the end of a sentence like "TCP is an example of a stateful protoco." (which is a direct quote from the book).
A sentence ending with two periods (yes '..'!).
And a white space character being swapped with the last character of the preceeding word making both the first and second word different; for example "cars how" becomes "car show".

Whoever was responsible for that should be fired! I am surprised the publisher is not embarrassed by the quality of the proof reading.

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Summary: Review - Designing Embedded Communications Software
Review: I have read this book. This book is very good for software engineers, both beginners and experienced people who are involved in writing embedded communications software.

This book can be used as a check list to make sure development team analyzed all the key issues involved in software design before entering into development phase. Fixing problems during later stage of development is very expensive. The more we analyze all the issues during initial stage, the better we succeed. Mr. T. Sridhar, author of this book, with his extensive experience in product development clearly taking us from introduction (Section 1.4- Design considerations well written) to some of the important issues like buffer and timer management written in chapter 6 of this book. I also enjoyed reading Software Partitioning and Management software covered in Chapter 3 and 7 respectively.

This book can be considered as text book for elective subject during MS course in communications systems or related field. Students who want to choose their career in communication software can study this book.

I strongly recommend this book for experienced communication software engineers as well as beginners (software engineers/Graduate/Post-Graduate students)

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Summary: Very Good book !!!
Review: I love this book, its really great !! Its a very good reference for people working in embedded communication software design. It touches upon all major topics involved in communication software design. The author gives a very clear, concise and in-depth treatment of various design techniques.

Would definitely recommend !!

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Summary: His friends?
Review: It seems that all the reviewers are from India as are the authors. Probably their friends.
Based on that I would not purchase the book.
I gave it one star because they will not let you rate it less.

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Summary: His friends?
Review: It seems that all the reviewers are from India as are the authors. Probably their friends.
Based on that I would not purchase the book.
I gave it one star because they will not let you rate it less.

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Summary: Reference book for embedded communication software developer
Review: This is a very good book providing overview of all the issues that a fresh engineer should consider when developing software for embedded communication equipment.

The Chapters on Tables and Other Data Structures and Buffer and Timer Management are particularly insightful and provide good details of the different techniques adopted - a good reference material. The Chapter on Mutli-Board Communications Software Desgin provides a good summary of the options in hardware design for communication equipment - good for beginners to understand the environment where their software would be executing.

The language used and the approach the author has taken in introducing a problem and analysing the different techniques to solve the problem is very direct maintaining the focus on the topic.

Overall, a good addition to the library of a technical person.

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Summary: Consice Book for Embedded Comm Software Development
Review: While reading the book by T.Sridhar, I felt that it was a refresher course in Embedded Communications System design. After an introduction to the communication world devices, the book details their software requirements. This is followed by structured methods for design and implementation of the various components of the communication software. This includes highlighting the choices for development along with typical issues that one needs to know. These are covered in chapters 3 through 7.

I liked Chapter 8 - Multi-Board Communications Software Design, which introduces real world system designs and software architecture for implementing such systems. The section on redundancy and fault tolerance is detailed with ladder diagrams explaining the exchanges between an active and standby cards in a redundant system.

A successful software development is achieved by following well-defined software development life cycle (SDLC). In Chapter 9, Sridhar walks through the phases of SDLC with a typical Layer 3 Switch development. The section on development and test tools is very informative.

With summary, references for further study and exercises at the end of each chapter this book is a very good textbook for students who plan to enter the world of communications software. For engineers who have been involved in embedded software development this book will be a nice refresher.