Microcomputer Interfacing and Applications

✍ Scribed by M. A. Mustafa (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Ltd, Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the applications guide to interfacing microcomputers. It offers practical non-mathematical solutions to interfacing problems in many applications including data acquisition and control. Emphasis is given to the definition of the objectives of the interface, then comparing possible solutions and producing the best interface for every situation.


Dr Mustafa A Mustafa is a senior designer of control equipment and has written many technical articles and papers on the subject of computers and their application to control engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages ix-xii
List of Trademarks, Page xiii
Chapter 1 - Operation of a microcomputer, Pages 1-36
Chapter 2 - Microcomputer interfacing techniques, Pages 37-60
Chapter 3 - Microcomputers and add-ons, Pages 61-81
Chapter 4 - Using digital-input and digital-output ports, Pages 82-115
Chapter 5 - Multiplexing, storing and data-conversion techniques, Pages 116-136
Chapter 6 - Interfacing D/A converters to microcomputers, Pages 137-157
Chapter 7 - Interfacing A/D converters to microcomputers, Pages 158-182
Chapter 8 - Using data-conversion ICs, Pages 183-200
Chapter 9 - Counters and timers, Pages 201-241
Chapter 10 - Switching devices, Pages 242-274
Chapter 11 - Optical devices, Pages 275-301
Chapter 12 - Generating waveforms, Pages 302-319
Chapter 13 - Microcomputer-controlled robotic mechanisms, Pages 320-343
Chapter 14 - Temperature measurement and control, Pages 344-371
Chapter 15 - Motor control, Pages 372-399
Chapter 16 - Miscellaneous applications, Pages 400-424
Chapter 17 - Limitations, upgrading and development tools, Pages 425-449
Appendix, Page 450
Index, Pages 451-456