Introduction to Microprocessors Using the Mc6809 or the Mc68000 (Mcgraw Hill Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

This introductory level text provides the basics of computer processors for courses in introduction to microprocessors or microprocessor applications. Its orientation is not so much towards a description how microprocessors themselves are designed, but rather how microprocessors can be used to do something useful. Thus, it is aimed not at the electrical major who needs a strong understanding of the internal workings of microprocesor chips, but at the electrical or non-electrical electrical major who needs adequate background to intelligently use, program, modify, and maintain microprocessor systems or to manage those people who do so. The coverage focuses on two popular microprocessor chips, the MC6809 and the MC68000. Coverage starts with a brief introduction to logic circuits and an introduction to number systems and codes and progresses to a detailed assembly-language description of the two target processors: the MC6809 and the MC68000. The test is suitable for students whose only knowledge of computers is some higher level language programming experience. Sufficient hardware descriptions of the two featured processsors is included to serve as a foundation for later course work on interfacing and/or real-time programming. A microprocessor simulator program motivates students to learn the details of a "working" microprocessor; this software is contained in the Instructor's Manual and can be copied.