Microcontroller Programming

Preface

A few decades ago there were only mainframes, each shared by many people. In the last decade or so, we witnessed the personal computing era, that is, person and machine interaction through desktops. With the popularity of mobile, handheld, and smart devices, we have already entered into the third wave of computing, which can be called Ubiquitous Computing. We rely on these equipments and devices in our lives to such an extent that one cannot imagine the world without these multifunctional gadgets.

Microcontrollers are inevitably used in equipments and devices ranging from smart cards and GPSs to power plants and space shuttles. A microcontroller is a complete computer control system on a single chip. For example, Motorola’s 68HC11 ...