Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software

This book reads a little bit like a guided museum tour that walks you around a whole career. You'll get a sense of what sort of technical problems are out there along with generally applicable problem solving strategies to match. There's some diagrams for digging in on bite sized examples, and the more complex embedded problems are acknowledged with references to other specific-purpose guides. The strong narrative voice tying it all together makes it pretty enjoyable to read as far as technical books go. I had bought the first edition of the book to bridge the gap between my college degree and first embedded job, and I bought the second edition for the updates on how the industry has changed in the ~10 years in between editions. Its still the best embedded book I've read, and I'd still recommend it to my coworkers.

If: 1.) You are an embedded engineer 2.) You want to be an embedded engineer 3.) You work with embedded engineers 4.) You are interested in what embedded engineers do Buy this book. It is approachable and applicable to any and all projects an embedded engineer would be involved in. For the most experience to a someone interested in digging into a new discipline (you will need a basic engineering background however), get this book. One of my new favorite references to have in the office next to me (: Thanks Elecia!

Great book, but it wasn't quite what I expected. It goes over all the basics and I'd categorize it as an introductory book. I've been an embedded developer for many years and felt the book was correct in every way, but I, frankly, didn't learn much as just about everthing in it I already knew. If you're starting out in an embedded career or looking to pivot from an adjacent field go for it, but if you're already experienced it's probably a pass.

This book should be on the shelf of any embedded engineer. Hobbyist or professional, it’s a great read.

Really great stuff that helped me a lot as a professional embedded firmware engineer to write better code. There were immediately valuable exercises that helped to understand my existing code base and refactor it into a more maintainable code base.

Excellent book. Detailed and well written

Good material

I really like this book. It sets out to provide an intro to the embedded space with more focus on software than hardware, but it has enough depth that it isn't just an intro book. The humor is great too, not so much that it distracts from the content but enough to lighten up the material and lower the activation energy needed to work through the book. What other book has a datasheet for a triceratops or explains interrupts based on a chicken pushing a button? I read the 1st edition as well, and the new edition has enough new content to justify upgrading. There is a lot of new material in this version that wasn't in the last.

It's a really great book catered to Software engineers and electronics hardware engineers who want to equip themselves with knowledge of Embedded Systems. Would not recommend for beginners as there is quite a bit of jargon in the text.

There are no examples. Its only narrative.

This is an almost complete overview of topics to consider and learn for a career in Embedded Systems. Has a friendly voice, good humour and very easy to read. I have written up a comprehensive review under the title of "Making Embedded Systems - A Reader's Review" on my blog.

Very well written - even with ober a decade of experience I enjoyed reading the book. Very warmly recommended.

A must have for every embedded software engineer, especially for beginners/intermediate.