Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans.Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot and EFI Development Kit (tianocore) and Chromebook, this is the first book that combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization. What you’ll learnUnderstand the key differences between PC and embedded ecosystems in terms of firmware needs.Thorough underpinning of Intel’s firmware solutions.How to build a firmware stack for Quark.How to integrate FSP with a bootloader, by studying the hands-on example of Coreboot and UEFI.How to make a smart "build-it or buy-it" decision when starting a new embedded project.Who this book is forFirmware designers and engineers, hardware engineers, software architects, and product development managers.Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Firmware Stacks for Embedded Chapter 3: Intel® Firmware Support Package (Intel FSP) Chapter 4: Building Coreboot with Intel FSP Chapter 5: Chromebook Firmware Internals Chapter 6: Intel FSP and UEFI Integration Chapter 7: Building Firmware for Quark ProcessorsChapter 8: Putting it all togetherAppendix A: Sample of Boot Setting File (BSF)