68000 Family Assembly Language Programming (Pws Series in Engineering) (Hardcover)

by Alan Clements (Author)

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The author has a gift for conveying highly complex, technical information in an exceptionally clear and readable manner with a very student oriented writing style. In this book he stresses the basics of 68000 assembly Language (ASL) while also covering the more recent members of the 68000 family. He excels at explanations by analogy, explaining unfamiliar concepts through comparison with related topics the student has already learned. Moreover, the book does not simply introduce assembly language it covers the design of assembly language programs. Also this book provides an introduction to the 68000 ASL, it does not neglect the more complex instructions such as LINK and UNLK. The author's ties with Motorola and his exacting standards have resulted in an extremely accurate presentation. The examples and problems have been class tested, and technical staff of Motorola have worked with the author on the production of this book. This wealth of reference material for 68000 ALS ensures that the reader gets a solid grounding in 68000 assembly language together with materials not readily available in Motorola's manuals, including an annotated instruction set. The cross-assembler/simulator software (3.5 DOS disk) is bound with the book, allowing readers to use their IBM PCs or compatibles as a laboratory on which to test their ASL code for the 68000 processor.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 736 pages
• Publisher: CL-Engineering; 1 edition (September 24, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534932754
• ISBN-13: 978-0534932756
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #393,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars still germane for an important family of chips, July 18, 2005

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Clements demonstrates that the 68000 assembler language is a very logical and clean one. With none of that segmented memory nonsense of the 1980s Intel architecture. Having a flat address space makes your coding far simpler. Perhaps you might not appreciate this from a reading of Clements, if you have never had any experience with the other chip set. But those who have will certainly thank Motorola.

As this review is written in 2005, the 68000 family is still selling well. It has a heavy presence in embedded microcontrollers and real time systems, for example. So if your company wants you to code in the 68000, the book is still germane.

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent book on boring,outdated subject, May 13, 2009

By	J. Toth (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like many of you looking at this book, I was required to take an assembly language course for my degree. For those of you new to assembly language, it is a horribly frustrating way to write simple programs. This book does a mediocre job at introducing the language, with emphasis on theory rather than implementation. If you're going to actually write assembly language programs, you'll definitely need more help than this book offers.

1.0 out of 5 stars not as advertised, February 7, 2009

By	B. Co "boyco" (seattle) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this book came in pretty crappy condition, binding is very weak and feels like the book is about to fall apart. not a very honest seller. FIRST BAD EXPERIENCE ON AMAZON, will never buy from this seller again.