Advanced C++ for Embedded Systems

Course Outline

Introduction C++ Performance

• Member functions

• Static functions

• Inheritance and V-Tables

• RTTI and type info.

Embedded C++

• Why Embedded C++ was developed

• Embedded C++ features

• Migrating from EC++ to full C++.

Real-Time Specifics

• Accessing hardware

• Manipulating information at the bit level.

Device Interaction

• Device polling.

Interrupts

• Different interrupt models

• Function model

• Name encoding

• Class model

• Device “has an” interrupt

• Memory overhead.

Functions and Operators

• Class defined conversions

• Overloading and function selection

• Friend functions and classes

• Overloading operators

• Dynamic memory allocetion revisited

• Assignment

• Copy constructors.

Exception Handling

• What are exceptions

• Throwing an exception

• The try block

• Catching an exception

• Rethrowing exceptions

• Catch all handlers

• Exception specifications

• Exceptions models and overheads.

Templates

• Introduce parameterised types and functions:

• function templates

• class templates

• Performance implications.

The Standard Library

• Introduction to the Standard Library.

• The STL

• Using the STL efficiently.

Software Structuring

• Consider how to structure large scale software systems

• Separate implementation from interface header files

• Dealing with name conflicts

• Linking with other languages.

Target Specific Considerations

• Portability Considerations

• Non-standard C++ language features

• Assembly Language Interfacing

• Designing ROMable objects.

Design Patterns

• What patterns are and are not

• Patterns types

• Architectural

• Design

• Idioms

• Pattern examples.

Concurrency

• Concurrency

• Scheduling strategies

• Task-Is-Polymorphic

• Task-Runs-Polymorphic

• Sharing resources in multi-tasking systems

• Mutex objects

• Synchronizing tasks

• Transferring data between tasks.