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Embedded Programming with Modern C++

Embedded Programming with Modern C++

This course discusses embedded C++ programming, with a focus on reduced resource needs, providing high-performance to safety-critical and real-time applications

Intermediate

134 Lessons

20h

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This course discusses embedded C++ programming, with a focus on reduced resource needs, providing high-performance to safety-critical and real-time applications

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Course Overview

Embedded Programming with Modern C++ is highly valuable for each professional programmer. In the past, embedded and system programming have had their pitfalls, but modern C++ has been designed to be a better language for this type of development, addressing the previous pitfalls/requirements explicitly. What are these requirements? Embedded systems deal with safety-critical systems, meaning they must guarantee high performance combined with limited resources, while also working in parallel. The scope of ...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

C++

Programming Language

Embedded Programming

Course Content

1.

Introduction

The course equips learners with embedded programming in C++, dispelling myths and emphasizing best practices for safety-critical and high-performance systems.
What to Expect from the Course
Embedded Programming and C++MythsFactsTechnical Report on C++ Performance
2.

Safety-Critical Systems

The chapter explores useful features in C++ programming, such as uniform initialization, automatic type deduction, scoped enumerations, nullptr, and literals.
Uniform Initialization with {}- Examples- Exercise- SolutionAutomatic Type Deduction: auto- Examples- Exercise- SolutionScoped Enumerations- Examplenullptr Instead of 0 or NULL- Example
User-Defined Literals: Introduction- Example- Exercises- SolutionUser-Defined Literals: Raw and Cooked- ExampleBuilt-in Literals- ExampleAssertions at Compile Time- Example- Exercise- Solution
3.

High Performance

The chapter emphasizes high performance in embedded programs using modern C++ through type traits, constant expressions, associative containers, and templates.
Type-Traits- Examples- Exercise- SolutionConstant Expressions: constexpr- Examples- ExerciseAssociative ContainersAssociative Containers: The Hash FunctionAssociative Containers: Performance Comparison- Examples- Exercise- SolutionTemplates in Modern C++Function Templates- ExamplesClass Templates- ExamplesClass Template: Friends- ExamplesTemplate Parameter- ExamplesTemplate Parameter: Variadic Templates- ExamplesTemplate Arguments- ExamplesTemplates: Specialization- ExamplesTemplates: CRTP- Examples
4.

Reduced Resources

The chapter emphasizes resource efficiency in C++ through move semantics, perfect forwarding, memory management, sequential containers, and smart pointers.
Rvalue and Lvalue References- ExampleCopy versus Move SemanticMove Semantic- Examples- Exercise- Solution
Perfect Forwarding- Example- Exercise- SolutionMemory Management: Memory AllocationMemory Management: Memory DeallocationMemory Management: Overloading Operator new and delete 1Memory Management: Overloading Operator new and delete 2- Example- ExerciseSTL: Sequential Containers- Example- Exercise- SolutionSmart Pointers: IntroductionSmart Pointers: Unique Pointers- ExamplesSmart Pointers: Shared Pointers- Examples
Smart Pointers: Weak Pointers- ExampleSmart Pointers: Cyclic References- Example- Exercise- SolutionSmart Pointers: Performance ComparisonSmart Pointers: Passing Smart Pointers
5.

Several Tasks Simultaneously

The chapter explores multithreading, covering concepts such as memory models, atomics, synchronization, mutexes, and task management for concurrent programming.
The ContractAtomicsSynchronization and Ordering- Example- ExerciseThreads- Examples- Exercises- SolutionsMutexes- Example- ExerciseLocks- Examples- Exercises- SolutionsThread-Safe Initialization of Data- Examples- Exercise- SolutionThread-Local Data- ExampleCondition Variables- Example- Exercise- SolutionTasksstd::async- Example- Exercise- Solutionstd::packaged_task- Example- Exercise- Solutionstd::promise and std::future- Examples- Exercise- Solution
6.

Conclusion

2 Lessons

This chapter summarizes the advantages of C++ in embedded and system programming, building high-performance safety-critical systems with parallel computation.

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