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book: C Programming for Microcontrollers Featuring ATMEL's AVR Butterfly and the free WinAVR Compiler | Joe Pardue

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	• C Programming for Microcontrollers Featuring ATMEL's AVR Butterfly and the free WinAVR Compiler Joe Pardue Smiley Micros, 2005 - 300 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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Great tutorial and project book!

I got started in C and AVR with this book. I found other texts harder to understand. But Joe broke it down and made it easy to learn and I was very grateful for having this book. The projects were fun and useful and I ended up immediately using code and ideas from the book to create more advanced projects with the Butterfly (Turns counters, resonant frequency tuners, etc). You should be able to get up to speed and writing your own advanced functions after following this book within one week. If you are already adept at C then this book will show you some fun project ideas and get you running fast.

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wealth of info - even without background

I'm a mechanical engineer without background in electrical engineering or software engineering and this book literally provided me with a wealth of valuable information beyond just the AVR Butterfly doing some great tricks. Some reviews seem to suggest the book is unclear, but before reading I literally barely understood what a bit is, and Pardue illuminates all of that with examples that you implement right away. I have a mechanical background, but the stuff the book deals with is ubiquitous and helpful all over.

Yes - you have to read and think and re-read, but C and microcontrollers are complex inventions accomplish a huge variety of tasks - which you'll actually be able to start doing with this book. I recommend it.

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Do you want a low cost way to learn C programming for microcontrollers? This book shows you how to use Atmel?s $19.99 AVR Butterfly board and the FREE WinAVR C compiler to make a very inexpensive system for using C to develop microcontroller projects.

Students will find the thorough coverage of C explained in the context of microcontrollers to be an invaluable learning aide. Professionals, even those who already know C, will find many useful tested software and hardware examples that will speed their development work.

In addition to an in-depth coverage of C, the book has projects for:? Port I/O reading switches and blinking LEDs? UART communication with a PC? Using interrupts, timers, and counters? Pulse Width Modulation for LED brightness and motor speed control? Creating a Real Time Clock? Making music? ADC: Analog to Digital Conversion? DAC: Digital to Analog Conversion? Voltage, light, and temperature measurement? Making a slow Function Generator and Digital Oscilloscope? LCD programming? Writing a Finite State Machine

CD contains all the source code, the free WinAVR C compiler, AVRStudio, and lots of other useful things.

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