What Every Engineer Should Know about Microcomputers

1. Introduction 2. A Problem 3. A Solution Strategy 4. Engineering Our Solution 5. A Block Diagram and a Software Diagram 6. About Our Microprocessor 7. Inside the Microprocessor 8. Getting to the Outside: Addressing 9. Connecting the ROMs and RAMs 10. Getting to the 1/0 Chips 11. Controlling the Integrator 12. Looking Up in the Tables 13. Interrupting the Microprocessor from the Comparator 14. Responding to the Comparator's Interrupt 15. Some Housekeeping 16. A Look at Our Whole System 17. Another Way to Read Out 18. A Deeper Look Inside the Microprocessor 19. Computing with a Microprocessor 20. Software in a World of Changes and Complexity 21. The Ada Language 22. Software Development Methodologies-And Object-Oriented Design 23. Object-Oriented Partitioning, with Entity-Relationship Diagrams 24. The Structure of Ada 125. Our Example in Ada-A Step-by-Step Explanation 26. The Control Program 27. Interrupts in Ada 28. And Now ... Back to Our Program 29. Some Definitions 30. Packages in Our Example 31. The Converter Program 32. The Display Control Program 33. The Benefits of Ada-Without Ada 34. The Ada Program-In Final Form