Errata

Making Embedded Systems

Errata for Making Embedded Systems, Second Edition

Submit your own errata for this product.

The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF Page 25, Adapter Pattern
First paragraph of the Adapter Pattern section.

I think you confused the Adapter pattern with the Facade pattern. The Adapter pattern is intended to make two components that aren't really designed to work together work together. The Facade pattern is actually the one that makes more complicated interfaces easier to use.

 Shane Kirk  May 15, 2024 
Printed Page 137
Figure 5-5

In figure 5-5, the right hand graphic representation called "Contents of processor register" section C) the binary representation is not changed while the hexadecimal representation is changed.

The section demonstrates clearing the register by a read which is reflected in the hexadecimal but not binary representation of register content.

 Rasmus Linusson  May 07, 2024 
Printed Page 182
3rd paragraph (not counting the general note)

Typo in acronym expansion of UART "receiver/transmitter" has been typed as "received/transmitter"

 Rasmus Linusson  May 22, 2024 
Printed Page 205
Last two lines of the code excerpt at the top of page

The formula calculating the length of data available in the buffer after a wrap occurs should be:
(cb->size - cb->read) + (cb->write)

 Pascal Bodin  Jun 30, 2024 
Printed Page 282
Second paragraph

The first sentence of the second paragraph says: "The CM may need you to write software to test the firmware before shipment." Shouldn't it be: "The CM may need you to write software to test the hardware before shipment."?

 Pascal Bodin  Jul 14, 2024 
Printed Page 382-384
Figures 14-3, 14-4 & 14-5

All three figures are titled "Triangular motion" while Figure 14-4 shows trapezoidal motion and Figure 14-5 shows S-curve motion as described in text body.

 Rasmus Linusson  Jul 13, 2024