Work Environment and Workflow Optimization
The first step toward a successful software project is choosing the right tools. Embedded development requires a set of hardware and software instruments that make the developer’s life easier and may significantly improve productivity and cut down the total development time. This chapter provides a description of these tools and gives advice on how to use them to improve the workflow.
The first section gives us an overview of the workflow in native C programming, and gradually reveals the changes necessary to translate the model to an embedded development environment. The GCC toolchain, a set of development tools to build the embedded application, is introduced through the analysis of its components.
Finally, in the last two sections, strategies of interaction with the target are proposed, to provide mechanisms for the debugging and validation of the embedded software running on the platform.
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