Microprocessor Base Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Hardware Design  (Paperback, Michael Slatar)

This book provides practical guidelines and procedures for developing cost effective microprocessor-based hardware products. It simplifies and clarifies advanced techniques of microprocessor-based product design. Presents a wealth of design examples demonstrating these techniques in a step-by-step manner.

Key Features

• Covers state-of-the-art devices such as 1MB dynamic RAMs.
• Shows how to choose an appropriate microprocessor for a given application.
• Explains the function of buses, all types of semiconductor memory, system components including DMA controllers, counter/timers, watchdog timers, LED, LCD, vacuum fluorescent, and CRT displays.
• Covers basic concepts of serial I/O, data communication and interfacing.
• Describes the basic technology and interfacing considerations for all types of user input and output devices.
• Offers techniques for connecting multiple processors including coprocessors, multimaster bus operation and single-chip slave processors.
• Includes end-of-chapter exercises stressing key points in the text.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Microprocessor Types and Selection
• Bus Structures
• Memory
• Bus Peripherals
• The User Interface
• Displays
• Data Communication
• Mass Storage
• Multiple Microprocessor Systems
• Subject Index
• Product Number
• Index