Design With Pic Microcontrollers [Paperback]

John B. Peatman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997 | ISBN-10: 0137592590 | ISBN-13: 978-0137592593

Appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses on Microcontrollers in Electrical or Computer Engineering.Focuses on the use of Microchip Technology's "PIC" microcontroller chips to integrate the features of a digital design. The book introduces program writing with a series of code templates that helps readers learn by doing rather that start their own code writing from scratch.

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FEATURES:

* Uses detailed block diagrams to illustrate all registers, control bits, and status bits associated with assorted functions.
* Uses examples throughout to illustrate points and to show readers how assorted issues can be handled.
* Provides a systematic path into the PIC microcontrollers by showing its organization and ways to deal with its complexities.
* Provides alternative methods for addressing interrupt timing constraints designed to meet the needs of all interrupt sources.
* Presents a systematic treatment of slowly changing events, including keyswitches that have been debounced and scanned with a state machine implementation.
* Includes the I/O port expansion using the serial peripheral interface that provides a simple mechanism for eliminating the problem of "not enough pins."
* Presents expansion with I2C devices.
* Presents the details of the PIC's unusually flexible analog-to- digital conversion facility.
* Discusses the master-slave interconnection of PICs.
* Presents low-power operation alternatives.
* Provides quick insight into the family member which will meet design requirements with block diagram comparisons of PIC family members.(Figure A-4)
* Includes several important pedagogical features:

* Problems at the end of each chapter reinforce the material presented.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137592590
• ISBN-13: 978-0137592593
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,722,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > Microprocessors & System Design > PIC Microcontroller

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, unclear and superficial, August 20, 2001

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Christopher J. Smith (Westville, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design With Pic Microcontrollers (Paperback)

As with Peatman's other books, this one SEEMS to cover the material at first glance in the bookstore. But then, after the reader purchases the book and gets it home, s/he will find the coverage incomplete and diluted. What do I mean? Specifically, there are no detailed or in-depth examples. The material is abstract and general in nature. For a topic like microcontrollers, the reader needs examples that are "step-by-step" and "how-to". These are totally lacking. Buy any other book instead. Then you might actually learn something.

27 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, July 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Design With Pic Microcontrollers (Paperback)

Don't believe for a minute the rave reviews preceding this one!

You may be a seasoned embedded system programmer, and you want to get up to speed quickly rather than relying on pouring through Microchip's reference manuals, this book is not it.

It's too bad that the author is not as good at writing as he is at marketing the book. A good writer will make even a difficult subject easy to understand. It is not so in this case. Sadly, the converse is true. (Randal Schwartz of Learning Perl fame, are you listening?!)

I am going to learn to design and program the PIC, but not with this book.

Bottom line: save the money and stay with the Microchip references available online.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It is not ment to be a "PIC for dummies" Book, February 1, 2005

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Gizmoduck "Gizmo Lover" (Sillicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design With Pic Microcontrollers (Paperback)

I took Dr. Peatman's class in college with this book, and I think this book would have done better if he had bundled the Class Lab book. The class lab book and actually having the hardware in front of you made the book make a whole lot more sense. I can see how some of the other readers may have been disappointed because with out the hardware in front of you its a bit difficult to really understand whats going on. I think this book is great as a reference if you have a PIC controller to play around with, but I would not recommend this book to some one who is looking for a "PIC microprocessors for Dummies" type book.