Math Toolkit for Real-Time Programming

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Summary: Real-Time instructional communications for Computers
Review: "MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" provides both education and a functional history. My wife taught school for 30 years. She saw me laughing (or crying) at the memories and started reading the book. Now, two book marks reside in the book. Years ago, I told her that she should teach primary and secondary summer school for computer-nerds. Now, she knows that computer control makes an art of multiple dimensions. Each dimension delivers insights into numeric aspects. This changes numerics control from a dummy-subject into a functional art with functional purposes. Now, she knows that if students learned to apply numeric control arts, they would later prosper when taking functional higher education courses. For one thing, they would exert tremendous- pressure on educational structures to "teach!" The brightest students ask, "What is this used for in the real- world?" The book holds more power than simple

demonstration. It holds years of reality in a changing world. It forces reasoning into the educational system!

"MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" moves from the most basic computer arts into functional demonstrations of real-time computer arts. In this transition, most persons eventually lose the thread of communications. For those who wish to gain functional real-time programming abilities, READ-THE-BOOK from cover to cover. In the end, the reader gains a road-map of current art. With this understandable road-map of purposes and devices, you take algebra and calculus classes with a designed goal. These no longer appear as "abstract arts." Go shopping for the curriculum. Interview perspective instructors. Show them Dr. Crenshaw's book. Then, when teaching, they comprehend that this is BUSINESS! You know that it is BUSINESS. Then, they know how and what to teach you for your BUSINESS purposes.

"MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" is designed for instructional communications. Buy it, read it, and use it for instructional communications.

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Summary: Real-Time instructional communications for Computers
Review: "MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" provides both education and a functional history. My wife taught school for 30 years. She saw me laughing (or crying) at the memories and started reading the book. Now, two book marks reside in the book. Years ago, I told her that she should teach primary and secondary summer school for computer-nerds. Now, she knows that computer control makes an art of multiple dimensions. Each dimension delivers insights into numeric aspects. This changes numerics control from a dummy-subject into a functional art with functional purposes. Now, she knows that if students learned to apply numeric control arts, they would later prosper when taking functional higher education courses. For one thing, they would exert tremendous- pressure on educational structures to "teach!" The brightest students ask, "What is this used for in the real- world?" The book holds more power than simple

demonstration. It holds years of reality in a changing world. It forces reasoning into the educational system!

"MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" moves from the most basic computer arts into functional demonstrations of real-time computer arts. In this transition, most persons eventually lose the thread of communications. For those who wish to gain functional real-time programming abilities, READ-THE-BOOK from cover to cover. In the end, the reader gains a road-map of current art. With this understandable road-map of purposes and devices, you take algebra and calculus classes with a designed goal. These no longer appear as "abstract arts." Go shopping for the curriculum. Interview perspective instructors. Show them Dr. Crenshaw's book. Then, when teaching, they comprehend that this is BUSINESS! You know that it is BUSINESS. Then, they know how and what to teach you for your BUSINESS purposes.

"MATH ToolKit for Real Time Programming" is designed for instructional communications. Buy it, read it, and use it for instructional communications.

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Summary: I Haven't Read it Yet, But...
Review: I haven't read the book, but I have been reading Jack Crenshaw's column in "Embedded Systems Programming" magazine for over ten years! In his column he has presented a variety of difficult engineering topics - such as control systems and the math behind them - in a easy to read and even entertaining manner. Maybe now I can throw away all those back issues!

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Summary: gold mine
Review: If like me you need to take control over the math library that comes with your compiler then this book is for you. Whether you need more speed, more reliability with a total understanding of what's going on inside your code this book is for you. It is definitely on my top-five for embedded engineering. This is pretty much the stuff they don't teach in university but makes a trememdous performance difference at the project level. Do yourself a favor and get this book, even if it's just for reference... you will need it soon!

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Summary: MUST-HAVE for Embedded Engineers
Review: If like me you need to take control over the math library that comes with your compiler then this book is for you. Whether you need more speed, more reliability with a total understanding of what's going on inside your code this book is for you. It is definitely on my top-five for embedded engineering. This is pretty much the stuff they don't teach in university but makes a trememdous performance difference at the project level. Do yourself a favor and get this book, even if it's just for reference... you will need it soon!

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Summary: Embedded Programmers bible!
Review: Math Toolkit for Real-Time Programming is simply the best focused book on the subject of doing maths on microcontrollers, eg PIC 8051, AVR, PSOC etc with limited resources.

If you write software for an 8 bit micro's then this is the book for you. As it is writen if you want a canned answer then this has less value, but if you want to learn how then this is for you.
It has also been helpful to demistify some math concepts that I never really "got" even after doing an electrical engineering degree!

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Summary: Nice reference for embedded system programmers
Review: Nice reference for embedded system programmers If you have the last 10 years of Embedded Systems Programming magazines, then you will already have 80% of the basics covered in this book, but the book is a great reference to read and have handy. Material is expanded and well written, so I'd recommend it for any one working with embedded control systems.

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Summary: Nice reference for embedded system programmers
Review: Nice reference for embedded system programmers If you have the last 10 years of Embedded Systems Programming magazines, then you will already have 80% of the basics covered in this book, but the book is a great reference to read and have handy. Material is expanded and well written, so I'd recommend it for any one working with embedded control systems.

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Summary: This book deserves 10 stars
Review: Run, don't walk to get this book!

Remember all those numerical analysis classes you had to take, in which you learned absolutely nothing? Ever used a "black box" numerical integration routine with a bunch of "magic" coefficients that came from God knows where and do God knows what? Do you understand the relationship between z transforms and "backward differences?"

This book explains all this and more in a clear, readable, and dare I say, even entertaining presentation (I read it in one sitting cover-to-cover.)

Over the years, I've purchased quite a few technical reference books. Most seem to be weighty self-congratulatory monuments to the authors' personal ability to present fantastically-terse-yet-look-how-rigorous mathematical proofs. Maybe 1 in 100 is actually written in a down-to-earth, accessible way without pages of dense jargon and overly complicated formulations.

"Math Toolkit for Real-time Programming" is simply the best numerical analysis/numerical programming book I've ever read, and perhaps the best technical book on any subject, period.

Do yourself a favor and get this book ASAP.

Rating:
Summary: This book deserves 10 stars
Review: Run, don't walk to get this book!

Remember all those numerical analysis classes you had to take, in which you learned absolutely nothing? Ever used a "black box" numerical integration routine with a bunch of "magic" coefficients that came from God knows where and do God knows what? Do you understand the relationship between z transforms and "backward differences?"

This book explains all this and more in a clear, readable, and dare I say, even entertaining presentation (I read it in one sitting cover-to-cover.)

Over the years, I've purchased quite a few technical reference books. Most seem to be weighty self-congratulatory monuments to the authors' personal ability to present fantastically-terse-yet-look-how-rigorous mathematical proofs. Maybe 1 in 100 is actually written in a down-to-earth, accessible way without pages of dense jargon and overly complicated formulations.

"Math Toolkit for Real-time Programming" is simply the best numerical analysis/numerical programming book I've ever read, and perhaps the best technical book on any subject, period.

Do yourself a favor and get this book ASAP.