Intended for first microprocessor courses at the technology level, this text provides an introduction to microprocessors using the 8-bit Motorola 6800. Coverage encompasses hardware, software and programming topics, including a full chapter on 6800 interrupts. The writing style is clear and straightforward and concepts are always followed by numerous examples that illustrate their applications in actual situations. An appendix gives an overview of Motorola's 16-bit 68000 family, providing a valuable transition to more advanced courses. Each chapter ends with review questions, applications problems and suggested projects. Includes an appendix on assembly language structured programming. No previous knowledge of microprocessors is assumed.
Jack enjoys writing, reading, hiking, and especially competitive cycling. Jack enjoys traveling (even business trips), hiking, bicycling, listening to classical and folk music, and reading good literature. In addition to English, Jack speaks fluent German, fluent Spanish and conversational French.
Experience:
Jack held a variety of unusual jobs after graduating from high school in Johnstown, Pennsylvania including a job as a translator in a vacation resort in Spain, a stint in the Swedish Merchant Marine, and another as a civilian electrician working for the British Army on the Rhine in Hannover, Germany. When he returned to the U.S., he worked his way through Arizona State University as a disk jockey and then spent a year in graduate school studying German literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Jack returned to Phoenix where he supervised a quality control department at Motorola Semiconductors before teaching communications and digital electronics for eight years at the Phoenix campus of DeVry University. From DeVry he went to work for In-Stat in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1990, where he began the company's original microprocessor service. Jack left In-Stat in 1992 to found Micrologic Research. After retirement in 2011, he completed four years of undergraduate studies in the French language, which included one year at Stendhal University in Grenoble, France.
Publications:
In addition to having authored almost 20 book-length market studies in the fields of programmable processors and wireless communications for Micrologic Research and dozens of shorter studies while at In-Stat, Jack has authored two textbooks, which are still used in many technical schools and colleges. The 6800 Microprocessor and Digital Data Communications. The second book is out of print, but Microprocessor 6800 is still on the market.
Licenses and organizations:
Jack holds a general class (formerly first class) commercial radiotelephone and an amateur extra class (W7KEI) radio operator's licenses. He also holds an amateur bicycle road-racing license. He is a member of American Mensa, the Arizona Bicycling Club, Phoenix Consumers Cycle Club, and USA Cycling.
