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I'm on a Quest. I suppose I need some shining armor and a mystical blade, except that I'm also the Damsel in Distress, which messes up the iconography quite a bit.
1. I want to understand how Ethernet MACs work. I want to know enough about it that I could easily program one -- write an Ethernet driver, that is. This also implies some knowledge of PHYs and what they do. I do NOT need to know anything about TCP, UDP, IP, cabling, security, routers, hubs, name service, subnets, or how to program a web server using Java. Some of that I'm familiar with already and I don't need any of it right now anyway. We are talking link layer only here. (Well, ok, a bit of physical.)
2. I want to get better at embedded software development in general. Principles. Concepts. Gotchas. Debuggggiiiiiiiiiing. So far, I have learned by doing. This has benefits and drawbacks. I'm looking to spackle the holes.
I am on a quest for books on these two subjects. I want good books -- I'm lazy, and if a technical book doesn't make me learn its subject any faster it's not worth reading. I want books that are worth the money -- I'm not rich enough that I want to spring for a $60 book because it has one chapter that touches on what I need. Ideally, I want books that come personally recommended by people who have benefited from the material themselves. (This means I can search amazon.com as well as the next geek, thanks.)
Yes, I'm aware that there's a strong possibility that what I am looking for is not out there. I honestly don't know how many people a) write Ethernet drivers for a living, b) don't already know how to do it, c) read English, and d) like to learn from books. If I were a publisher I admit I wouldn't print it. On the other hand, maybe it does exist. Yesterday I saw a book titled "Blogging for Teens" and I wouldn't have printed that one either.
Lemme know, embedded gurus.
1. I want to understand how Ethernet MACs work. I want to know enough about it that I could easily program one -- write an Ethernet driver, that is. This also implies some knowledge of PHYs and what they do. I do NOT need to know anything about TCP, UDP, IP, cabling, security, routers, hubs, name service, subnets, or how to program a web server using Java. Some of that I'm familiar with already and I don't need any of it right now anyway. We are talking link layer only here. (Well, ok, a bit of physical.)
2. I want to get better at embedded software development in general. Principles. Concepts. Gotchas. Debuggggiiiiiiiiiing. So far, I have learned by doing. This has benefits and drawbacks. I'm looking to spackle the holes.
I am on a quest for books on these two subjects. I want good books -- I'm lazy, and if a technical book doesn't make me learn its subject any faster it's not worth reading. I want books that are worth the money -- I'm not rich enough that I want to spring for a $60 book because it has one chapter that touches on what I need. Ideally, I want books that come personally recommended by people who have benefited from the material themselves. (This means I can search amazon.com as well as the next geek, thanks.)
Yes, I'm aware that there's a strong possibility that what I am looking for is not out there. I honestly don't know how many people a) write Ethernet drivers for a living, b) don't already know how to do it, c) read English, and d) like to learn from books. If I were a publisher I admit I wouldn't print it. On the other hand, maybe it does exist. Yesterday I saw a book titled "Blogging for Teens" and I wouldn't have printed that one either.
Lemme know, embedded gurus.
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Thanks for the web site -- both of them, in fact. I printed out the Debugging Rules, the less-flowery version found in "chapter two", and will display it in my office until I get distracted by something newer and shinier. :-)
DEFinitely vendor datasheets. Incredible how grateful I am to Google for being able to find random datasheets in a couple of tries. Incredible how grateful I am to companies willing to put their datasheets up on the web, instead of making you go sign an NDA and get a licensed copy (*cough* not that I've worked with M--, er, I mean any company like that).
Robotics, eh? I wouldn't have thought of that. Any specific books come to mind?
I'm seeing a lot of examples of "clever instrumentation" in Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, a book I've borrowed from a friend. (How lazy and cheap can ya get? BORROW the thing!) He does everything from instrumenting the code (including bit-banging dumps of various things at various events) to creating little bits of hardware that will blink or count or what-have-you when hooked to a couple of pins. If nothing else, it's breaking my old limiting habit of equating "debugging" with "using a debugger".