Best PIC Microcontrollers
This book takes the novice from introduction of embedded systems through to advanced development techniques for utilizing and optimizing the PIC family of microcontrollers in your device. *Covers both assembly and C programming languages, essential for optimizing the PIC. *Amazing breadth of coverage moving from introductory to advanced topics covering more and more complex microcontroller families. *Details MPLAB and other Microchip design tools. Tim Wilmshurst is the author of Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"From comparison to many other books I have read, I would consider this book to be excellent for beginners as well as nothing is bypassed even though the book is economically written."
"This book is a thorough guide on starting to use assembler and then C to design embedded systems on PIC uCs."
"Even with numerous PIC C tutorials on the web, the completeness and depth of this book make it a welcome addition on my journey into embedded programming."
"Very readable book."
"very nice book and nice layout."
"Has many examples and good explanations."
"Covers both assembly language and C. Detailed and deeply discussed."
"Very well written - Good core learning book for PIC MicroControllers."
Setting up your own PIC microcontroller development lab PIC MCU basics PIC microcontroller interfacing capabilities, software development, and applications Useful tables and data Basic electronics Digital electronics BASIC reference C reference 16-bit numbers Useful circuits and routines that will help you get your applications up and running quickly. Among his best sellers are: Programming and Customizing PIC Microcontrollers, 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius, Build Your Own SUMO-Bot, and Build Your Own Robot Kit.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"There's a lot of information in this book."
"the book is a little out-dated, it goes back to 1998 but other than that it's still a good read.it was free basically,just paid for shipping.but I would. recommend a newer edition."
"hard to follow for someone with no background in programming."
"Have browsed the book but haven't dug in in detail yet."
"It is a good book when just starting out trying to learn to program PIC microcontrollers."
"If you want to learn BASIC programming of PIC's, I do not recommend this book."
"There is 1243 pages on this book but up to 243 and after 965, there is no useful information. A example: On figure 2.3, we have that about the printing of datasheets: "to create two-side documents, first print the back side in reverse order, put the pages back into the printer, and print the front side in ascending order.""
"Although I have alot of respect for Myke Predko's knowledge in this area, I have to say that his writing is not easy to follow and I saddingly would have to say that this book is more for people with a pretty deep experience in programming MCUs and building electronic circuits."
This book takes the novice from introduction of embedded systems through to advanced development techniques for utilizing and optimizing the PIC family of microcontrollers in your device. *Covers both assembly and C programming languages, essential for optimizing the PIC. *Amazing breadth of coverage moving from introductory to advanced topics covering more and more complex microcontroller families. *Details MPLAB and other Microchip design tools. Tim Wilmshurst is the author of Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"From comparison to many other books I have read, I would consider this book to be excellent for beginners as well as nothing is bypassed even though the book is economically written."
"This book is a thorough guide on starting to use assembler and then C to design embedded systems on PIC uCs."
"Even with numerous PIC C tutorials on the web, the completeness and depth of this book make it a welcome addition on my journey into embedded programming."
"Very readable book."
"very nice book and nice layout."
"Has many examples and good explanations."
"Covers both assembly language and C. Detailed and deeply discussed."
"Very well written - Good core learning book for PIC MicroControllers."
Best Microprocessor Design
The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years." My co-authors of that study, and our executive secretary, Robert L. Patrick, were invaluable in bringing me back into touch with real-world large software projects. In preparing my retrospective and update of The Mythical Man-Month, I was struck by how few of the propositions asserted in it have been critiqued, proven, or disproven by ongoing software engineering research and experience. In hopes that these bald statements will invite arguments and facts to prove, disprove, update, or refine those propositions, I have included this outline as Chapter 18. For a wonderful willingness to share views, to comment thoughtfully on drafts, and to re-educate me, I am indebted to Barry Boehm, Ken Brooks, Dick Case, James Coggins, Tom DeMarco, Jim McCarthy, David Parnas, Earl Wheeler, and Edward Yourdon. I thank Gordon Bell, Bruce Buchanan, Rick Hayes-Roth, my colleagues on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Software, and, most especially, David Parnas for their insights and stimulating ideas for, and Rebekah Bierly for technical production of, the paper printed here as Chapter 16. Analyzing the software problem into the categories of essence and accident was inspired by Nancy Greenwood Brooks, who used such analysis in a paper on Suzuki violin pedagogy. Two persons' contributions should be especially cited: Norman Stanton, then Executive Editor, and Herbert Boes, then Art Director.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Fred Brooks was a software engineer at IBM for some decades and later chair of the UNC CS department."
"Classic book which is proven by time."
"It contains four additional chapters: No Silver Bullet, yet another influential essay by Brooks that was not in the original edition; an overview of all his points (the entire book) in an easy-to-digest format; his thoughts 20 years on from writing the original, and how the industry has changed in that time; and finally, his responses to various criticism he has received over the years specifically in response to the "No Silver Bullet" essay."
"Other topics include the distinction between the "essential" and "accidental" elements of software design; the distinction between building a computer program vs. designing a "programming a systems product" (and the ninefold difference in complexity and time between the two); the quest for software engineering's elusive "silver bullet"; the importance of documentation; the surprisingly small percentage of time that actual writing of code occupies on the timeline of a typical software-development project (as contrasted with time needed for testing and debugging); large teams vs. small "surgical teams" (and why the latter isn't always the answer for all projects); the "buy versus build" dilemma; and many others."
Best Computer Hardware Control Systems
INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: INSTRUMENTATION AND MOTION CONTROL, is the ideal book to provide readers with state-of-the art coverage of the full spectrum of industrial maintenance and control, from servomechanisms to instrumentation. Terry Bartelt is currently an Electromechanical Instructor at Fox Valley Technical College, with more than twenty five years teaching experience in the field.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"2011C edition, Terry Bartelt, Industrial Automated Systems: Instrumentation and Motion Control. So far I recommend it, I'm an electrical design engineer on the accelerated learning path and find it useful."
"its quite a good book for beginners."
"I'm a Control Systems Engineer and have found this book useful."
"My son is using this book for his class."
"This book is very thorough and detailed."
"Pretty much as described."
"A required textbook for one of my classes."
Best Computer Hardware DSPs
This book presents the fundamentals of discrete-time signals, systems, and modern digital processing and applications for students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.The book is suitable for either a one-semester or a two-semester undergraduate level course in discrete systems and digital signal processing.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The reason for only 4/5 stars is mostly due to the poor coverage of terms in the index, which makes it hard to find where a particular concept is first introduced and defined."
"While very easy to read and understand, the material covered is presented with sufficient depth."
"The book demonstrates great details of Fourier Transform by constructing from mathematic components to a whole picture of Fourier Transform. I guess this textbook also much better than most textbooks, since most textbooks don't even bother to cover the real fundamental concepts."
"Great for beginning Engineering students."
"I applied the MathCAD 14.0 to solve the problem assignments and found a couple of typing errors in the solution guide. The solution manual is a great helper on assisting me to work on more problem assignments with confidence--It's the reason why I decided to purchase this textbook rather than other advance DSP books."
"Although the content is same as I expected the book is thicker and has different paper type which makes the book not easy to use and strong enough.This was acceptable because of low price."
"Poor book assembly."
"it is a clone of the book, it isnt the original book."
Best Computer Hardware Design
Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. Dividing an enterprise application into layers The major approaches to organizing business logic An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions Designing distributed object interfaces 0321127420B10152002.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Awesome book to read to understand the underpinning patterns of frameworks- that definitely improves ones understanding of why and how to use pattern."
"I found this book really complete about the issues an enterprise application may encounter."
"The benefit of reading this book is understanding what the problem is, why it's a problem and how to solve the problem."
"A great book of well written information."
"Classic Book."
"This should clearly be a book that sits along with the Gang of Four book on your shelf (Design Patterns) for the Enterprise developer or someone interested in enterprise development."
"Microsoft has moved away from datasets (Thankfully) so some of what it's talking about doesn't make sense anymore."
Best Computer Hardware Embedded Systems
Exploring Raspberry Pi.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm an EE with programming experience in Windows and I found the Linux section easy to understand, but very slow going, due to the vastness of Linux."
"Very comprehensive book on how to program the Rpi for physical computing."
"I've been playing with the Raspberry Pi for a few years now as a basic Linux computer, but I always felt that interfacing it to other devices would make this a much more powerful little platform. I'm fortunate to have enough background in these areas to weave through this, but those with less of a computer or electronics background might want to have a local geek or two handy to call in for help when needed. I'm an Electrical / Computer Engineer by trade, and I've had an interest in introducing hobby electronics to my kids."
"I can sum it up in one word."
"Really a very good book!!"
"This book is fantastic."
"I agree the the traditional paper book deserves the 5 star rating. The Kindle edition only has a 2 level outline, no sub topics, making it extremely cumbersome, if not useless, as a navigation tool. So minimal table of contents and no index makes the Kindle edition pretty useless as a convenient reference."