Hardware Programming Bundle

This book takes you from zero SIMD experience to confident optimization of real-world code. You will learn the architecture, the instruction sets, the memory considerations, and the measurement discipline needed to write fast, correct, portable vectorized code in production systems. No hand-waving, no exercises for their own sake; just clear explanations, working examples, and a practical methodology you can apply repeatedly.

The STM32 family is the world's most popular 32-bit microcontroller platform, with over 15 billion units shipped and more than 4,000 part numbers spanning ultra-low-power sensors to AI-capable edge processors. This book takes you from the fundamentals of the ARM Cortex-M architecture through bare-metal register programming, peripheral mastery, real-time operating system integration, performance optimization, security hardening, and production deployment. Every concept is explained with clear technical prose, supported by fully commented C code examples that progressively increase in complexity. Whether you are a student encountering embedded systems for the first time or a seasoned firmware engineer looking to deepen your STM32 expertise, this book serves as both a learning path and a lasting reference.

This book explains how modern CPUs actually work, why software runs fast or slow and how to systematically measure, diagnose and improve performance. It covers the fundamentals of processor architecture and the advanced techniques used by systems programmers to extract every last cycle of performance. Every concept is grounded in real hardware behavior, measured with real tools and explained with real code. Whether you are writing a high-frequency trading engine, a database kernel, a game engine or simply code that refuses to be slow, this book will give you the knowledge to understand what your processor is doing with your instructions and how to make it do more, faster.