Who This Book Is For
This book is a reference for engineers, scientists, and other designers who want to create an electronic system. The term applied embedded electronics covers a wide swath of devices that includes embedded controllers, cell phones, medical instruments, computers and tablets, all consumer electronics, industrial robots, automation systems, and countless others. All electronic devices that use digital control methods also fall under this broad heading.
The topics covered here are common to all of these devices. The emphasis here is on hardware design—the actual circuits and systems—with a brief look at coding and software issues.
The reader is presumed to have a background in engineering or science and a grasp of fundamental electronics.