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AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C (Pearson Custom Electronics Technology)

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The textbook only covers basics. It is a book for beginners and for low level college introductory microcontroller courses. The book not very useful for real projects. The author give me an impression that he just started to learn about AVR right before starting to write this book. In this book, it is not much explanation on the hardware features; being able to connect to external memory for ATmega128. Author use for examples Atmega32. Interfaces examples no cover CAN and USB connections to AVR. No cover connection to graphics matrix displays.

This is the book assigned for an Assembly class I am taking.

The scope of this book is not stated on Amazon, but this book is intended for college students learning Assembly with some C knowledge, (obviously using Atmel AVRs to learn with.)

This book was clearly written and published very quickly, without a lot of effort and without much proofing. Many sections in this book are unclear and awkwardly worded. There are several blatant errors that are all results of the book not being proofed before publishing. The authors/publishers also offer classroom PowerPoint slides to colleges who use this book. These slides are riddled with errors, typos, and mistakes.

This could have been a very good book, even a five star book. All of the information that you need to know/learn is there. It is unfortunate that the authors didn't spend a little more time in writing and proofing the book before publishing it.

I will start of by saying that out of all the text books I have come across this is by far one of the best.

I need this book for part of an engineering degree, focused on the AVR micro-controller. Coming form a programing degree I found this book very good, clear and it is filled with useful examples.
One thing i loved about the book is that it was written in a way that it can be used by people with little experience with programing, or anyone who is new to Assembly and embedded systems programing.

I loved the introductory chapters as they gave you are feel and solid back round in AVR and computing.
One more note that I found very important was the fact that as the examples got more complicated they often had both C and assembly side by side which helps give a better perspective of what you are doing.

5 stars. :-P
AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C (Pearson Custom Electronics Technology)