TY - JOUR
AU - Waterfall, Roger C.
AB - Understanding and Troubleshooting the Microprocessor: JAMES W. CAFFRON (Prentice-Hall, 1980,338 pp., £12.30) As the use of microprocessors increases, the demand for technicians trained in servicing, maintain­ ing and fault finding systems grows, and so does the need for textbooks on these topics written specifically for technicians. This book assumes an understanding of digital electronics and has some good features. Illustrations and circuit diagrams are copious. Where a passive component is used, its value is given. All IC devices (SS, MS and LS) are numbered, their data sheets are given and there is an excellent section on how to read and understand data sheets. Unfortunately, only the INTEL 8080 family of L.S. devices is described and all organisation is via the INTEL control bus. The order of presentation is unusual. After a brief general introduction comes a description of data semiconductor memories and their (static) troubleshooting. There follows a description of input and output via hex keyboard and 7 segment displays together with hardware circuits to interface them directly to RAM. Only then (in Chapter 4) is the microprocessor introduced! One chapter is devoted to troubleshooting techniques, but in fact only one method is described, developed by the author and 
TI - Book Review: Interfacing and Scientific Data Communications Experiments
JF - International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education
DO - 10.1177/002072098001700431
DA - 1980-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-interfacing-and-scientific-data-communications-experiments-t6WNnxvnFP
SP - 378
EP - 378
VL - 17
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -