THE BOOK
Microcomputer Engineering is intended for use in a first course
in microcomputers and microprocessors. Typical students are in
engineering and related disciplines. Many practicing engineers
who develop products using the Motorola 68HC11 chip have praised
Microcomputer Engineering. Clear, simple language and many examples
enhance readability. For more information, left click on Preface.pdf or TOC.pdf to view, using the Acrobat viewer in your browser, the preface
or table of contents. Right click a link to download the file.
Microcomputer Engineering is most useful to those with background
in digital logic circuits and some understanding of electronics.
An extensive background in electronics is not required.
The best learning experience requires hands-on work with a hardware
trainer. An appendix documents the Motorola 68HC11EVB board because
it is a low-cost widely-used trainer. No other references to a
specific trainer are made, so any of the many available trainers
can be used with this book, although with greater effort. The
trainer section of this Web site also has information on some
other Motorola trainers. Search the Web for information on trainers
from other manufacturers.
CHANGES IN THE SECOND EDITION
Many small changes were made to the first seven chapters. Most
of the end-of-chapter exercises are new or modified. Some interrupt
material was moved from Chapter 7 to Chapter 6, and then expanded
to discuss both reentrancy and concurrency. The new Chapter 8
discusses the fundamentals of common real-time operating systems
in simple language. The new Chapter 9 discusses the design and
implementation of a real-time operating system for the 68HC11
and the application of the OS in the design of a simple weather
station. All source code is provided and discussed as the design
project progresses. The chapter begins by discussing the specifications
of the weather station, the requirements of the operating system,
and the necessary hardware for the weather station. Many of the
I/O devices in the 68HC11 are used in this project. A modestly
equipped laboratory will have the necessary hardware to implement
this project. The source file for the weather station is available
at this Web site to make it easy for students to get started on
this quite complex project, and then modify and enhance the system.
In order to contain the cost of textbooks, Prentice Hall limits
the number of pages that an author can use. To add the new material
in Chapters 8 and 9 of the second edition, several sections from
the first edition were omitted. All omitted material is available
at this Web site for those who find it useful. Appropriate modifications
make it convenient to print the materials to use as handouts,
or for students to access directly from the Web.
MOTOROLA'S WEB SITE
Motorola's Web site has extensive technical information and email
lists at www.mcu.motsps.com/hc11.
ADOBE'S WEB SITE
To download the freeware Acrobat viewers for the PC, Macintosh,
or UNIX, go to the Adobe site at www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
THE MICROCOMPUTER ENGINEERING WEB SITE
Copyright
The materials available at this site are copyrighted by Gene H.
Miller, 1998. You are free to use these materials as long as proper
credit is given to the author.
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