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)