Introduction to the Design of Small-Scale Embedded Systems

TIM WILMSHURST is Head of Electronic Systems at the University of Derby, where he teaches embedded system design. Before this he was Senior Design Engineer at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. Here he led the work of the Electronics Development Group, and taught electronic system design. His designs have been applied in many areas of engineering research, as well as in the commercial world.

• Introduction.- Abbreviations.- Introducing Embedded Systems and the Microcontroller.- From Humble Beginnings: Towards the Minimum System.- Preliminary Programming.- Memory Matters.- Analog Affairs.- Strictly Serial.- Systematic Software.- Dealing with Time.- Interfacing to External Devices.- Supplying and Using Power, in a Power-Conscious World.- Dealing with Numbers.- Designing and Commissioning the System.- Answers to Selected Numerical Questions.- Appendix 1 Binary, Hexadecimal and BCD.- Appendix 2 The 16F84 Instruction Set.- Appendix 3 A Versatile Microcontroller Based Digital Panel Meter.- Appendix 4 Addressing Modes Address Decoding and the Memory Map.- Index.