Overview: Specifically written to give students an easy introduction to this important topic (Visit: http://www.engj.ulst.ac.uk/sidk/quintessential).An associated web site with additional material, reading listMicroprocessors and their microcontroller derivatives are a ubiquitous, if rather invisible, part of the infrastructure of our 21st century electronic 1 and communications society. In 1998 it was reckoned that hidden in ev ery home were about 100 microcontrollers and microprocessors; in the sillging birthday card, washing machine, microwave oven, television con troller, telephone, pers
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