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Summary: An extremely practical textbook on the topic
Review: Full of practical examples and insights, this quickly take the reader to the most useful concepts he or she needs in using the 8051 chip. No nonsense, no intellectual exercises, simply the good stuff!
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Summary: No messing around!
Review: I had never written a microcontroller application before. Within 1 week of getting this book I wrote an application to allow addressing serial data to various devices hanging off radio modems!If you want to start writing real 8051 apps in a hurry - look no further, just get this book.
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Summary: Not for beginners!!
Review: I have experience in technology level basic electronics, PLC's, some Industrial Instrumentation, some digital, and I've had C++. I'll admit I'm not a whizz at any of it, but then again I don't think I'm stupid. I bought this book based on the high reviews thinking it would be the hot ticket-I was disappointed. Chapters 1 & 2 covers memory organization, interrupts, and timers. The tutorial at 8052.com(free) does a lot better job at explaining this material. The book has some assembler programs, but it doesn't explain the basics of assembler at all- doesn't explain directives like org, equ, and rs. The course at hkrmicro.com(free)does a lot better job of explaining assembler than this book. Then chapter 3 gets into interfacing the micro. It has some good material about swtiches, but then jumps into more advanced material like switch matrixs, encoding and so on. Why jump to this material when you haven't even explained the very basics? Why not start with some simpler interfacing , explain it, show the code, and build up from there? I skimed through chapters 4 -7, which cover c programming and more interfacing examples,but they looked kind of advanced. I kind of hate to bash the book because I'm sure for the right people it does have some good information. However, the books description says... " it would be helpful if the student is familar with personal computers, binary and hex numbers, and had introductory digital devices(I'll admit I'm weak on digital)." The description I think leads you to think the book is going to cover the 8051, assembler(explains very little)& C and interfacing at a level begineers can understand-I didn't find that to be the case at all . Compared to other Prentice-Hall electronics books I've read by Floyd and by Tocci, this book doesn't stack up at all. I learned more from 8052.com and from hkrmicro.com.
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Summary: Cut to the core of 8051
Review: I have been working with microcontroller for quite some time. This book does not waste pages to get to the heart of 8051. I like that. The book focused more on software part of 8051. This book can make you a very good embedded programmer, but not a good embedded controller hardware designer. But this book is definitely the best thing that happened to people who want to become familiar with microcontroller. For the price and the material it covers, I can not find a better book.
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Summary: Cut to the core of 8051
Review: I have been working with microcontroller for quite some time. This book does not waste pages to get to the heart of 8051. I like that. The book focused more on software part of 8051. This book can make you a very good embedded programmer, but not a good embedded controller hardware designer. But this book is definitely the best thing that happened to people who want to become familiar with microcontroller. For the price and the material it covers, I can not find a better book.
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Summary: Not for beginners!!
Review: I have experience in technology level basic electronics, PLC's, some Industrial Instrumentation, some digital, and I've had C++. I'll admit I'm not a whizz at any of it, but then again I don't think I'm stupid. I bought this book based on the high reviews thinking it would be the hot ticket-I was disappointed. Chapters 1 & 2 covers memory organization, interrupts, and timers. The tutorial at 8052.com(free) does a lot better job at explaining this material. The book has some assembler programs, but it doesn't explain the basics of assembler at all- doesn't explain directives like org, equ, and rs. The course at hkrmicro.com(free)does a lot better job of explaining assembler than this book. Then chapter 3 gets into interfacing the micro. It has some good material about swtiches, but then jumps into more advanced material like switch matrixs, encoding and so on. Why jump to this material when you haven't even explained the very basics? Why not start with some simpler interfacing , explain it, show the code, and build up from there? I skimed through chapters 4 -7, which cover c programming and more interfacing examples,but they looked kind of advanced. I kind of hate to bash the book because I'm sure for the right people it does have some good information. However, the books description says... " it would be helpful if the student is familar with personal computers, binary and hex numbers, and had introductory digital devices(I'll admit I'm weak on digital)." The description I think leads you to think the book is going to cover the 8051, assembler(explains very little)& C and interfacing at a level begineers can understand-I didn't find that to be the case at all . Compared to other Prentice-Hall electronics books I've read by Floyd and by Tocci, this book doesn't stack up at all. I learned more from 8052.com and from hkrmicro.com.
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Summary: An excellent introduction to a popular microcontroller.
Review: The venerable 8051 continues to be one of the most popular microcontrollers with new, fast variants from Intel and Dallas Semiconductor and USB-capable chips from Intel and Anchorchips. This book will introduce you to the 8051's hardware and instruction set. Unlike many other books, this one goes beyond the introduction to show you how to use what you've learned. There's an excellent chapter about system design techniques, and I/O examples in assembly code and C, with schematics.
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Summary: Only for beginners
Review: This book is good for beginners:
- Description of 8051 processor
- Hardwareinterfacing an description
- Examples in C and ASM
- Assembler instructions from Intel (same as in 8051.pdf) I was searching of bulding a Multitasking 51 system but in this book was nothing written.
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Summary: An EXCELLENT blend of hardware & software
Review: This book is worth more than 5 stars. This is a MUST have text for electrical engineers dealing with embedded control systems. I use the 80C51 microcontroller at work, and this text provided an excellent knowledge for the 80C51. The real world applications and interfaces were highly beneficial towards my work projects. Additionally, the recommended compiler is great. It is definitely worth every penny spent--a magnificent investment. BUT IT!
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