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Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family

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This book has a bit of a cult following. It's accessible to any well rounded technical person but is no non-sense, no fluff. It covers more area in more depth than anything else I've seen. It shows you how to interface an 8051 -- wiring it up on a bus to RAM and I/O, and then how to bootstrap it in the self hosting language Forth, including the joys of programming the 8051.

The 8051 is still widely available from places such as JR electronics and is still a darling of embedded applications, process control computers and so forth, and this book gives you the background knowledge and tools to program the thing.

8051 assembly is easy, Forth is fun and easy to learn, and the amount of system integration involved in building an 8051 system is minimal.

If you're thinking it would be fun to build your own small computer from parts, you need to do system integration for a custom product, or you want to learn what's involved in designing embedded electronic systems for large scale mass manufacture, this book is a great pick.