Specifications

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Introduction
Ch. 1
Ch. 2
Ch. 3
Ch. 4
Ch. 5
Ch. 6
Ch. 7
Ch. 8
Ch. 9
App. A
App. B
App. C
Appendix B: Examples
The purpose of this chapter is to provide basic information about microcontrollers that one needs to know in order to be
able to use them successfully in practice. This chapter, therefore, does not contain any super interesting program or
device schematic with amazing solutions. Instead, the following examples are more proof that program writing is neither a
privilege nor a talent issue but the ability of simply putting puzzle pieces together using directives. Rest assured that
design and development of devices mainly consists of the following method "test-correct-repeat". Of course, the more you
are in it the more complicated it becomes since the puzzle pieces are put together by both children and first-class
architects...
BASIC CONNECTING
As seen in the figure below, in order to enable the microcontroller to operate properly it is necessary to provide:
Power Supply;
Reset Signal; and
Clock Signal.
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