Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 328 pages
- Published by: Newnes; Pap/Cdr edition September 24, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0750678100
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0750678100
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Description
Todays control system designers face an ever-increasing need for speed and accuracy in their system measurements and computations. New design approaches using microcontrollers and DSP are emerging, and designers must understand these new approaches, the tools available, and how best to apply them.
This practical text covers the latest techniques in microcontroller-based control system design, making use of the popular MSP430 microcontroller from Texas Instruments.
The book covers all the circuits of the system, including:
· Sensors and their output signals
· Design and application of signal conditioning circuits
· A-to-D and D-to-A circuit design
· Operation and application of the powerful and popular TI MSP430 microcontroller
· Data transmission circuits
· System power control circuitry
Written by an experienced microcontroller engineer and textbook author, the book is lavishly illustrated and includes numerous specific circuit design examples, including a fully tested and documented hands-on project using the MSP430 that makes use of the principles described. For students, engineers, technicians, and hobbyists, this practical text provides the answers you need to design modern control systems quickly and easily.
* Seasoned Texas Instruments designer provides a ground-up perspective on embedded control systems
* Pedagogical style provides a self-learning approach with examples, quizzes and review features
* CD-ROM contains source code and more!
Download Description
Embedded systems are ubiquitous; they are all around us, doing things for us without our awareness or involvement, like applying our brakes optimally in ABS systems, adjusting our environments in HVAC systems, and landing our aircraft in fly-by-wire systems. As these examples show, one of the most important functions of most embedded systems designs is the measurement, processing, and adjustment of real-world analog data (such as temperature, pressure, or humidity); these functions are generically known as control systems. In today's systems, the processing must be made at increasing speeds yet with the utmost accuracy and lowest possible power consumption. This practical book, written by a longtime designer and endorsed by Texas Instruments - who make the popular chip on which the book's examples are based - explains the latest techniques in microcontroller-based control system design, covering the basics of sensors, and circuit design.
Reader Reviews
I've worked through this book thoroughly after purchasing it thru Amazon. It is an elementary electronics text that is somehow quite dense. It serves as a somewhat abstract text on a lot of basic electronics circuits. It has the feel of a boilerplate electronics course -- things that seem to be cut and pasted out of other electronics textbooks. So for this, the information it useful, but I already have several textbooks that are both more thorough and more expertly and clearly written. Texas Instruments (TI) recommends this book as the best reference guide to using their MSP430 microcontrollers. Unfortunately, all of the info included in this book is available online, excepting a very simple example project--a digital thermometer. Caution: NO LINUX. The book describes using the MSP430 only with a proprietary programming system--and at that the information on this proprietary system is actually out of date. It has been replaced with newer versions. People interested in this book need to know that the info on the MSP430 microcontroller is extremely topical. There is very little to help you get oriented on a first design--and the text insists that you have no choice over your development platform--this is especially unfortunate since there are several development environments, including MSPGCC (which is totally free and very powerful) and low cost, effective compilers like imagecraft. The MSP430 reference sections of this book are redundent with other versions available online, and are in some ways less straightforward than the device datasheets. For example, over 50 pages are dedicated to an instruction set summary -- something obviously provided by the manufacturer. Tis is a basic electronics book with one MSP430 project. If you don't need an electronics tutorial, and if you don't want to use IAR's out of date software, then you'll probably want to stay away from this textbook.
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