Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things

Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans.

Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot and EFI Development Kit (tianocore) and Chromebook, this is the first book that combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization.

What you?ll learn

• Understand the key differences between PC and embedded ecosystems in terms of firmware needs.
• Thorough underpinning of Intel’s firmware solutions.
• How to build a firmware stack for Quark.
• How to integrate FSP with a bootloader, by studying the hands-on example of Coreboot and UEFI.
• How to make a smart "build-it or buy-it" decision when starting a new embedded project.

Who this book is for

Firmware designers and engineers, hardware engineers, software architects, and product development managers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Firmware Stacks for Embedded

Chapter 3: Intel® Firmware Support Package (Intel FSP)

Chapter 4: Building Coreboot with Intel FSP

Chapter 5: Chromebook Firmware Internals

Chapter 6: Intel FSP and UEFI Integration

Chapter 7: Building Firmware for Quark Processors

Chapter 8: Putting it all together

Appendix A: Sample of Boot Setting File (BSF)