
Advanced Zephyr Development: Performance Optimization, Security Hardening, and Production-Grade Design for Embedded Systems with Zephyr RTOS is a comprehensive guide for engineers, embedded developers, and system architects who want to take their Zephyr expertise to the next level. This book focuses on practical, real-world techniques that ensure embedded devices are not only functional, but also secure, efficient, and ready for deployment in production environments. Zephyr RTOS has rapidly grown into one of the most flexible and powerful platforms for embedded systems development. Yet moving from prototypes to production requires more than basic knowledge. Developers face unique challenges: strict performance requirements, constrained hardware resources, evolving security threats, and the need for robust testing and deployment workflows. This book addresses those challenges directly, equipping you with advanced strategies that go far beyond introductory tutorials. Inside, you will learn how to: Optimize performance through kernel scheduling, real-time analysis, memory management, and low-power techniques. Strengthen security with MPU and TrustZone integration, PSA APIs, secure boot, cryptographic libraries, and safe key management. Implement production-ready practices including firmware signing, secure OTA delivery, regression testing, and automated CI/CD pipelines. Master build and deployment workflows using CMake, Ninja, containerized environments, and west integration. Debug and test effectively with ztest, twister, fuzz testing, SystemView tracing, and multithreaded debugging techniques. Balance performance and security trade-offs, making data-driven design choices for different classes of embedded devices. The book also includes detailed case studies, walking you step by step through re
Page Count:
288
Publication Date:
2025-09-13
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
ISBN-13:
9798265214126
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