Preface

1. Part I: Introduction to C++ in Embedded Development

2. Debunking Common Myths about C++ FREE CHAPTER

• Technical requirements
• A short history of C++
• C with Classes
• Bloat and runtime overhead
• Summary

3. Challenges in Embedded Systems with Limited Resources

• Technical requirements
• Safety-critical and hard real-time embedded systems
• Dynamic memory management
• Disabling unwanted C++ features
• Summary

4. Embedded C++ Ecosystem

• Technical requirements
• Compilers and development environments
• Static analyzers
• Unit testing
• Profiling
• Summary

5. Setting Up the Development Environment for a C++ Embedded Project

• Technical requirements
• Requirements for a modern software development environment
• Containerized development environment
• Containerized development environment and Visual Studio Code
• Summary

6. Part II: C++ Fundamentals

7. Classes – Building Blocks of C++ Applications

• Technical requirements
• Encapsulation
• Storage duration and initialization
• Inheritance and dynamic polymorphism
• Summary

8. Beyond Classes – Fundamental C++ Concepts

• Technical requirements
• Namespaces
• Function overloading
• Interoperability with C
• References
• Standard library containers and algorithms
• Summary

9. Strengthening Firmware – Practical C++ Error Handling Methods

• Technical requirements
• Error codes and asserts
• Exceptions
• std:: optional and std::expected
• Summary

10. Part III: C++ Advanced Concepts

11. Building Generic and Reusable Code with Templates

• Technical requirements
• Template basics
• Template metaprogramming
• Concepts
• Compile-time polymorphism
• Summary

12. Improving Type-Safety with Strong Types

• Technical requirements
• Implicit conversion
• Explicit conversion
• Strong types
• Summary

13. Writing Expressive Code with Lambdas

• Technical requirements
• Lambda expression basics
• Storing lambdas using std::function
• std::function and dynamic memory allocation
• Summary

14. Compile-Time Computation

• Technical requirements
• Templates
• constexpr specifier
• consteval specifier
• Summary

15. Part IV: Applying C++ to Solving Embedded Domain Problems

16. Writing C++ HAL

• Technical requirements
• Memory-mapped peripherals
• Timers
• Summary

17. Working with C Libraries

• Technical requirements
• Using C HAL in C++ projects
• Introducing static classes
• Using RAII for wrapping the littlefs C library
• Summary

18. Enhancing Super-Loop with Sequencer

• Technical requirements
• Super-loop and motivation for a sequencer
• Designing a sequencer
• Storing a callable
• Implementing a sequencer
• Summary

19. Practical Patterns – Building a Temperature Publisher

• Technical requirements
• The Observer pattern
• Runtime implementation
• Compile-time implementation
• Summary

20. Designing Scalable Finite State Machines

• Technical requirements
• FSM – a simple implementation
• FSM – implementation using the State pattern
• State pattern implementation using tag dispatching
• Boost SML

21. Libraries and Frameworks

• Technical requirements
• Standard library
• Embedded template library
• Pigweed
• Compile-time Initialization and Build
• Summary

22. Cross-Platform Development

• Technical requirements
• Importance of writing portable code
• SOLID design principles
• Testability
• Summary

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24. Index