Programming and Interfacing the 8051 Microcontroller

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Summary: Useful for beginers or old pro's
Review: I have been designing hardware and programing the 8051 series for over 10 years. Still the book makes a good cookbook for methods and ideas that I may not have used for years and have forgotten. For hackers, it is great. For serious designers, it puts all in one place an outline of the CPU hardware architecture, various option configurations, and firmware suggestions. I like it, and I am keeping it in easy reach on my bookshelf.

Rating:
Summary: Useful for beginers or old pro's
Review: I have been designing hardware and programing the 8051 series for over 10 years. Still the book makes a good cookbook for methods and ideas that I may not have used for years and have forgotten. For hackers, it is great. For serious designers, it puts all in one place an outline of the CPU hardware architecture, various option configurations, and firmware suggestions. I like it, and I am keeping it in easy reach on my bookshelf.

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Summary: Missing sample software files -- nowhere to find
Review: I was working on a topic (5.8.1) and looked at 'sample software' p242. The sample software promised to be on the disks, are not on the disks. (LCD8.ASM)

I browsed the given site (and many more) but no reference to the software of the book or any updates (if any).

I find no other way to contact anyone but trying this review.

Please let me know if I can download the example files (not on the disks) from somewhere.

Thanks

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Summary: this book give many information about 8051 programming
Review: this book give many information about 8051 programming and interfacing to me.I thanks alot this books authors.

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Summary: Try Another Book
Review: This book is disorganized, the examples do not work, and it is generally not well written.

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Summary: Very poor format
Review: This was the first book I bought (I now own 3 others on the 8051), and it is basically all text and very little to none in the flowcharts or drawings to help get the microcontroller programming concept across. It gives you alot of ascii text long program examples with wordy explanations that put you to sleep! The only book I've seen that took the time to explain assembly language programming for the 8051 is the one by Scott McKenzie (his chap.8 entitled "Program Structure and Design) is worth the price of the book). Another book I would recommed for newbies is "Microcontrolller Cookbook" by M.R.James, as it's very practical and easily understood.