Embedded Systems Architecture
Design and write software for embedded devices to build safe and connected systems
Daniele Lacamera
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Embedded Systems Architecture
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Contributors
About the author
Daniele Lacamera is a software technologist and researcher. He is an expert in operating systems and TCP/IP, with more than 20 academic publications on transport protocol optimization. He began his career as a Linux kernel developer and had his first contribution accepted in Linux 2.6.
Since 2012, he has been working on microcontroller-based architectures, focusing on the design, development, and integration of software for embedded systems. He is an active contributor to many free software projects, and co-author of a TCP/IP stack and a POSIX operating system (OS) for Cortex-M devices, both distributed under the GPL. Nowadays, his activities are focused on IoT security, cryptography, secure boot, and custom transport protocols.
About the reviewer
Marco Oliverio obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Calabria, with a dissertation on OS defenses against side-channel and hardware attacks. Some of his academic publications have been presented at vitally important conferences regarding OSes. After finishing his Ph.D., he started working as a firmware and embedded developer, contributing to several open source projects.