Introduction to Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, and Interfacing for the Freescale 68HC12 (Academic Press Series in Engineering)

Introduction to Microcontrollers is a comprehensive, introductory text/reference for electrical and computer engineers and students with little experience with a high-level programming language. It systematically teaches the programming of a microcontroller in assembly language, as well as C and C++. This books also covers the principles of good programming practice through top-down design and the use of data structures. It is suitable as an introductory text for a first course on microcomputers that demonstrates what a small computer can do.

• Shows how a computer executes instructions;
• Shows how a high-level programming language converts to assembler language;
• Shows how a microcontroller is interfaced to the outside world;
• Hundreds of examples, experiments, "brain-teasers" and motivators;
• More than 20 exercises at the end of each chapter

G. Jack Lipovski has taught electrical engineering and computer science for 30 years. He is a computer architect internationally recognized for his design of the pioneering database computer, CASSM, and the parallel computer, TRAC. He is an expert in microcomputers and is a past director of Euromicro and former editor of IEEE Micro. Dr. Lipovski is the author of nine books, more than 70 technical papers, and holds eight patents in the areas of logic-in-memory integrated circuits. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.