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Software and Hardware Engineering: Assembly and C Programming for the Freescale HCS12 Microcontroller

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I've used this text for the past three years in my undergraduate Microprocessors course (lecture plus lab) and I highly recommend it. As a previous reviewer noted, there are a few mistakes, but these are quite minor and in no way detract from the usability of this text. The chapters are organized well, flow nicely from topic to topic, and keep the reader's attention without being wordy or repetitive. There are lots of examples and many of them include both an assembly and a C solution for the reader. This text is especially good if you're using CodeWarrior and any of the HC12-based boards from Axiom, but would work well with other HC12 boards or student learning kits.

I am an engineering major at Florida State this text book gives good information about how the microcontroller works, how fast it is, where the memory is at, basically the memorization and put on a piece of paper and pass a test class; however, as for practical the examples it gives I find are not very good, The book has examples that are incomplete and in lab it is hard to follow along.

Update, after review other books about this I actually have to give it another star, yes there are some mistakes but it is a 2nd edition and of course there will be mistakes because we are only human. It take a little bit of reading and actual reading not skimming through it like a novel to find out who killed who because it will be used later on so you may want to actually pay attention. I actually enjoyed the last class that I had even though I only made a C. I am about to hopefully take another class using this book so hopefully I will remake another update after this one.
07/28/2010 just to be up to date.