Preface

Chapter 1: A Hard Start
 System Requirements
 Central Processing Unit
 System Memory
 CPU Supervision
 Serial Port Drivers
 Ethernet Interface
 Flash Device Options
 The CPU/Memory Interface
 Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Started
 How Is It Done on a PC?
 Building Libraries
 Up Front
 Run Time
 Hardware Sanity Tests for the Firmware Developer
 Summary

Chapter 3: Introducing MicroMonitor
 An Embedded System Boot Platform

Chapter 4: Assembly Required
 Just After Reset
 I/O Initialization
 Establish Exception Handlers
 Summary

Chapter 5: Command Line Interface
 CLI Features
 CLI Data Structures and the Command Table
 CLI Processing
 The Functions Beneath the Command Line
 Shell Variable and Symbol Processing
 Command-Line Redirection
 Command Line Editing and History
 User Levels
 Password Protection
 Summary

Chapter 6: Interfacing to Flash Memory
 The Interface Functions
 Flash Driver Front End
 Summary

Chapter 7: A Flash File System
 The Role of TFS in the Platform
 File Attributes
 High-Level Details
 Flash Space Overhead Required by TFS
 Defragmentation
 TFS Implementation
 Adding and Deleting Files
 To Load or Not to Load
 File Decompression
 Execute in Place
 Summary

Chapter 8: Executing scripts
 The script Runner
 Conditional Branching
 A Few Examples
 Summary

Chapter 9: Network Connectivity
 Ethernet
 ARP
 IP
 ICMP
 UDP and TCP
 DHCP/BOOTP
 Applied to Embedded Systems
 Summary

Chapter 10: File/Data Transfer
 Xmodem
 TFTP
 Field Upgrade Capability
 Summary

Chapter 11: Adding the Application
 Different Memory Map
 Less Intense Startup
 Establishing an Application Stack
 Connecting to the Monitor's API
 The Application start () Function
 The Application main () Function
 Application-Originated Drivers
 Application-Based CLI Uses Monitor CLI
 scripts Run Through the Application's CLI
 Summary

Chapter 12: Monitor-Based Debugging
 Different Type of Debug Philosophy
 Breakpoints
 Adding Symbolic Capabilities
 Displaying Memory
 Overlaying a C Structure onto Memory
 Stack Trace
 Testing for Stack Overflow
 System Profiling
 Summary

Chapter 13: Porting MicroMonitor to the ColdFire(TM) MCF5272
 Source Code Directory Tree
 The Makefile
 The Configuration Header File
 Stepping Through the Port
 Summary

Conclusion

 Appendix A: Building a Host-Based Toolbox
 Interfacing to Files on the Host
 Interfacing to the PC Serial Post
 PC-Based UDP Transactions: moncmd
 Summary

 Appendix B: RTOS Overview
 The Scheduler
 Tasks, Threads, and Processes
 Preemption, Time Slicing, and Interrupts
 Semaphores, Events, Messages, and Timers
 Reentrancy
 Good Concurrency vs. Bad Concurrency
 Summary

 Index