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Title: This is not an architecture book
Review: This book collects many bits and pieces of the vast field of embedded systems, without clear illustration to concepts. It's neither instructional nor a comprehensive handbook. The attempt to cover hardware [...] is far less successful than the software part, which provides some good coverage of OS, middleware and application layers. Coverage of tools is weak. Fonts for some codes and graphs are too small to read. I suggest beginners go to one of those hands-on books targeting one microcontroller, and those experienced go to those more specialized books. [...]
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