Editors Oshana and Kraeling, with a combined experience of over 50 years in embedded software and an array of authors with backgrounds in various aspects of hardware and software design both in industry and academia rely on a variety of case studies and software code examples to provide exhaustive coverage of the field of software engineering for embedded systems. There is an interleaved two-dimensional conceptual framework to the work that divides the topics into three vertical and five horizontal layers. The vertical ones are automotive, networking, and storage and I/O while the horizontal are applications, middleware, platform, hardware, and process. There is extensive discussion of the increasing role of the Linux operating system in embedded systems and the use of the many excellent open source development tools available for that platform. Other topics covered include software optimization for varied goals, real time software engineering, software reuse, and development for multi-core hardware. Human factors involved in the development process such as end user safety in medical and automotive applications, user interfaces, development models, software design patterns, software testing, and intellectual property considerations are discussed in detail. The book’s code examples are written in C though there is brief coverage of the advantages and disadvantages of C++. There is also an appendix that describes a suggested naming convention and syntax standard for C. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)