Bringing together two areas of computer technology—networking and embedded systems—this developer's guide offers guidance and examples for each of these, with a focus on the special requirements and limits of embedded systems. Because developing an embedded system for networking requires knowledge from many areas, including circuit design, programming, network architecture, and Ethernet and Internet protocols, developers are given valuable technical information on each that can be put to use right away. Covered are the advantages and limits of using Ethernet to connect embedded systems in a local network, hardware and program code needed to connect an embedded system to an Ethernet network and the Internet, and how to build a network. Also discussed are how embedded systems can use TCP/IP and related protocols and how personal-computer applications can use the protocols to communicate with embedded systems. Developers will learn how their Web server's pages can include dynamic, real-time content and respond to user input.

这本开发者指南汇集了计算机技术的两个领域--网络和嵌入式系统--为其中的每一个领域提供指导和实例，重点是嵌入式系统的特殊要求和限制。由于开发一个用于网络的嵌入式系统需要许多领域的知识，包括电路设计、编程、网络结构以及以太网和互联网协议，因此，开发人员获得了关于每个领域的宝贵技术信息，可以立即投入使用。涵盖了使用以太网连接本地网络中的嵌入式系统的优势和局限性，将嵌入式系统连接到以太网网络和互联网所需的硬件和程序代码，以及如何构建网络。还讨论了嵌入式系统如何使用TCP/IP和相关协议，以及个人计算机应用程序如何使用这些协议与嵌入式系统进行通信。开发人员将学习他们的网络服务器的页面如何包括动态的、实时的内容并对用户的输入做出反应。