Embedded Microcontrollers

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Summary: Outstanding book on embedded systems
Review: "Embedded Microcontrollers" is an outstanding book for anyone who whishes to understand the inner workings of embedded systems. This book covers both software and hardware aspects and Mr. Morton does an excellent job in presenting the material with ample illustrations, tables, timing diagrams, schematics and lots of practical code examples. This book will certainly become a favorite in Colleges and Universities. If you're into embedded system design, you need this book on your bookshelf!

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Summary: A pinch of salt
Review: "Embedded Microcontrollers" is an outstanding book for anyone who whishes to understand the inner workings of embedded systems. This book covers both software and hardware aspects and Mr. Morton does an excellent job in presenting the material with ample illustrations, tables, timing diagrams, schematics and lots of practical code examples. This book will certainly become a favorite in Colleges and Universities. If you're into embedded system design, you need this book on your bookshelf!

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Summary: Difficult for a beginner
Review: I used this book for a beginner 68HC12 class at my college and I thought it was extremely hard to understand. Most of the examples involve C programming and at the time I hadn't taken a course on C so I didn't know what it was talking about. I think motorola has a lot of useful books if you want to program using assembly language. They have a small black book that goes over all the instructions and then also another book that goes over all the registers. I also beleive this book is wickedly expensive.

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Summary: Difficult for a beginner
Review: I used this book for a beginner 68HC12 class at my college and I thought it was extremely hard to understand. Most of the examples involve C programming and at the time I hadn't taken a course on C so I didn't know what it was talking about. I think motorola has a lot of useful books if you want to program using assembly language. They have a small black book that goes over all the instructions and then also another book that goes over all the registers. I also beleive this book is wickedly expensive.

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Summary: A pinch of salt
Review: This book is an good introduction to a broad range of topics and as with most books on embedded systems programming the examples are oriented to a particular CPU - frustrating if it's not the one youre using. Note: 'five star' reviewer Jean J. Labrosse WROTE the UC/OSII operating system featured in this overly expensive book. Try instead "The Art Of Designing Embedded Systems" by Ganssle...