Product Description

This reader-friendly guide shows you how to take charge of the newest, most versatile microcontrollers around, Atmel's AVR RISC chip family. Inside, Electronics World writer and astronomy instrumentation developer Dhananjay V. Gadre walks you from first meeting these exciting new computers-on-a-chip all the way through design and ready-to-launch products.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321252 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
PROGRAMMING AND CUSTOMIZING THE AVR MICROCONTROLLER
Packed with examples, projects, code, and tips!

ON THE CD-ROM
*Application-building tools
*Complete source code

Meet the new chips on the block! (and teach them a whole new set of tricks)

This reader-friendly guide shows you how to take charge of the newest, most versatile microcontrollers around, Atmel's AVR RISC chip family. Inside, Electronics World writer and astronomy instrumentation developer Dhananjay V. Gadre walks you from first meeting these exciting new computers-on-a-chip all the way through design and ready-to-launch products. Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller clarifies this versatile chip's basics and coaches you through sophisticated applications, using plenty of examples. Even programming newcomers will be able to follow the clearly illustrated, learn-as-you-go instructions. Yet professionals who need to get a project up and running quickly will find the details they need in the author's comprehensive coverage of the AVR's components and capabilities.

Part of the popular TAB Electronics series, Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller features:

*Easy-to-use explanations of all the AVR's subsystems, with plenty of examples and experiments
*Handfuls of ready-to-try projects, plus useful routines to plug into your own designs
*A confusion-reducing chapter on system design, and a complete AVR system development toolkit
*Hardware-software interfacing help
*AVR applications using assembly and C
*A guide to the best AVR on-line resources
*CD-ROM loaded with all the tools and source code you need to develop applications

Whether you’re designing for fun or adding intelligence to products for a paycheck, Programming and Customizing the AVR Microcontroller is the way to go for a smoother ride.

Step-by-Step Projects
Electronic Dice
Morse Keyer
Dual Channel Voltmeter
Kitchen Timer
Radio Beacon Controller
Data Acquisition System
Electronic Lock
Interfaced Pulse Counter
Musical Follow-Me Toy
Plus many Do-It-Yourself Ideas

About the Author
Dhananjay Gadre (Pune, India) is a Scientific Officer with the Instrumentation Program of the Inter-Univeristy Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India. He is now on leave from the IUCAA completing his Ph.D. at the Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute, EE Department, University of Idaho. His publications include several articles in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Electronics World, and EDN. He is also the author of Programming the Parallel Port: Interfacing the PC for Data Acquisition and Process Control, R&D Books, 1998.

Customer Reviews

Great book with 10 complete projects
Starts with a briefly outline of the history of microcontrollers. Then describes the AVR processor family in detail. A well written chapter. Getting into programming the AVR's and looking at some hardware concepts like connecting to RS232, RS422/423, RS485, SPI, Microwire, I2c, Parallel port, ISA-bus, IrDA link and CAN. What I like the most are the 10 projects. A well written book with a lot of information.

Excellent All round coverage
I recently purchased Mr Gadre's AVR book. I believe that it is a well organised book with lots of material for the beginner as well as an experienced embedded designer.

The book starts off with basics about embedded systems, a review of microprocessor architecture before moving onto the AVR details.

It has an excellent chapter on communication protocols and links, and how these could be used with the AVR controller, reading which, I learnt a lot.

Later chapters cover fabrication and code development issues. The best part is the 10 or so working projects, which demonstrate the true power of AVR controllers.

In all, this is a highly recommended book for anyone wanting to learn about microcontrolelrs in general and AVR in particular and I am satistifed that I purchased it.

A book that promised much but delivered little
This is a book that was written with little idea of what it was trying to achieve. There is insufficient theoretical content to call it an academic book; there is too little practical advice to make it a beginner's book, and coding is not handled in sufficient detail to make it a programmer's manual. The coding aspect is perhaps the most serious: only a few code listings are shown in the book, with the reader having to print examples from the CD-ROM as required. Only one or two listings are discussed in detail, with no descriptions of good programming techniques. The assembler commands are only briefly described, and even that is poorly done. All in all, there is insufficient good information to justify the expense: I shall be looking around for a better book.