TCP/IP Lean: Web Servers for Embedded Systems [Paperback]

Web-enabled appliances include a range of industrial equipment, consumer products, and domestic appliances. Commercial applications include photocopiers or other office equipment that communicate with the home office for diagnostic purposes or supply needs. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the predominant Internet server implementation, generally requires large bodies of code that can be unwieldy for the limited memory capacity of microprocessors used in embedded systems. This book shows how to implement a smaller, lightweight TCP server suitable for embedded microprocessors. Practical, hands-on TCP/IP programming is explained, with source code for an embedded TCP/IP stack supporting a Web server that provides dynamic graphics. In this new edition, the Web server is ported to the new PIC16F877 chip and updated to work over an ethernet connection. Additionally, a fully described demonstration port runs on Microchip's PICDEM.Net demonstration board.

The market for Web-enabled embedded appliances is booming analysts expect the market for information appliances to expand dramatically.

The CDROM includes the complete source code for the author's ChipWeb, a small footprint TCP/IP stack and Web server.

Jeremy Bentham is co-founder of an industrial networking company (Io Ltd.) and its software consulting offshoot Iosoft Ltd., in Cambridge, England. An engineer by training, he has developed many computer systems in railway control and other industrial applications and a wide range of software tools for embedded systems. Networking projects included Bitup, a Bitbus emulation for the 80188 processor; data transfer protocols using Arcnet and Ethernet; and a full 801888-based remote-boot communications system using the simpler TCP/IP protocols (UDP and TFTP). Recent work has been in implementing embedded TCP/IP systems in aerospace, Air Quality and video surveillance applications. In his spare time, Jeremy enjoys playing racquet sports, and is a keen amateur actor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.