Electronics and Microcomputers

This introductory text covers the principle electronics and microprocessor elements within an electronics course. It describes the complete range of commonly applied electronic circuit building blocks and is supported by an analysis of fault finding procedures on modern electronic systems. All three main categories of integrated circuit - digital, analogue, microprocessor - and their support chips are covered. The major microprocessor families (including the Pentium processor), the hardware adn software implications, high level programming languages (Basic, Pascal and C) and the major operating systems, including Windows are explained. The text is supplemented by worked examples and solutions.