Digital and Microprocessor Fundamentals: Theory and Application (4th Edition)

Focusing on the ?must know? essentials, this volume provides single-volume coverage of the fundamentals of both digital electronics and microprocessors?helping users become proficient at both hardware and software principles. It uses a simple, easy-to-understand writing style, an abundance of clearly explained examples, and nearly 1,000 illustrations to explore practical applications and problems using industry-standard ICs, circuits, and schematics that users will encounter on the job. The volume encompasses digital number systems and representations, logic gate operation and specifications, logic circuits and reduction techniques, data control devices, flip-flops and sequential logic, counter circuits and shift registers, interfacing to the analog world, microprocessor memory and programmable logic devices, microprocessor fundamentals, an introduction to 8085A software and hardware, the 8085A software instruction set, interfacing and applications and the 8051 microcontroller.

This is one of very few books that combine the "must know" essentials of digital electronics and microprocessors. Through this approach, it enables students to readily understand both hardware and software.

The fourth edition of Digital and Microprocessor Fundamentals: Theory and Applications enhances coverage of the following topics:

• Computer magnetic and optical memory devices
• Review of basic electricity principles
• Instructions for implementing digital logic with CPLDs
• Circuit design applications using CPLDs
• Using the EMAC Primer Microprocessor Trainer
• Using the SIM8085 Microprocessor Simulator on a PC
• Important World Wide Web sites

The CD packaged with this text includes SIM8085 software. This valuable learning tool allows students to simulate their programs on a Windows-based PC as they monitor registers and memory.