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With the same style and clarity that characterized their highly acclaimed book, The Elements of Programming Style, the authors have written Software Tools to teach how to write good programs that make good tools. The programs contained in the book are not artificial, but are actual programs ae tools which have proved valuable in the production of other programs. Modern programming techniques such as structured programming and top-down design are emphasized and applied to every program. The programs are presented in a structured language called Ratfor ("Rational Fortran") which can be easily understood by anyone familiar with Fortran or PL/I, Algol, PASCAL, or similar languages. (Ratfor translates readily into Fortran or PL/I. One of the tools presented is a preprocessor to translate Ratfor into Fortran). All of the programs are complete and have been tested directly from the text. The programs are available in machine-readable form from Addison-Wesley. Software Tools is ideal for use in a "software engineering" course, for a second course in programming, or as a supplement in any programming course. All programmers, professional and student, will find the book invaluable as a source of proven, useful programs for reading and study. Numerous exercises are provided to test comprehension and to extend the concepts presented in the text.

"Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet" is a refreshing alternative to the traditional sophomore text on computer organization and assembly language programming. The text approaches assembly the way it is commonly used in practice>to implement small, fast, or special-purpose routines called from a main program written in a high-level language such as C. By using an embedded software context, the text introduces multi-threaded programming, preemptive and non-preemptive systems, shared resources, and scheduling, thus providing a solid foundation for subsequent courses on operating systems, real-time systems, networking, and microprocessor-based design. The text will help you: appreciate the often overlooked consequences and limitations of binary representation. implement fast real-number arithmetic using fixed-point reals instead of floating-point. reinforce your comprehension of scope, parameter passing, recursion, and memory allocation. employ features of C (such as bit-manipulation and variant access) commonly used in embedded software. write functions in Intel x86 protected mode assembly to be called from C. estimate maximum data rate and latency for various styles of I/O programming. manage multiple threads, shared resources, and critical sections. develop programming practices that avoid priority inversions, deadlocks, and shared memory problems. "Fundamentals of Embedded Software: Where C and Assembly Meet" comes with a CD-ROM containing all the software tools needed to build simple stand-alone embedded applications on an ordinary Pentium-class PC: a C compiler, assembler, linker, boot loader, library, and both preemptive and non-preemptive real-timekernels. Also included are major portions of the source code for a number of programming assignments found in an appendix of the text.