Simplified Digital Automation with Microprocessors explores the utilization of simple digital circuits as building blocks in structures to create very powerful systems through the programmable operation of the microprocessor. This 10-chapter introductory book focuses on a class of automated processes with predictable results and is consequent to the specific design of the systems. The introductory chapters deal with the management of information and processes, from familiar decimal arithmetic to less familiar arithmetic of binary numbers. This topic is followed by discussions on the use of electrical and electronic mechanization of systems and the selection and classification of the most frequently used circuits. Considerable chapters are devoted to other parts of the operating systems, such as the arithmetic logic unit, microprocessors, interface devices, and auxiliary circuits. The concluding chapter provides an exercise in the design of a complete digitally automated system with specific function and structure. This text outlines the steps in the design process. This text will be useful to readers who are not already familiar with computer technology.
Inhalt
Preface
I Automation, an Introduction
I-1 Open and Closed Loops
I-2 An Additional Example
I-3 The Automated World
Exercises
II The Digital Approach to Information and Processes
II-1 The Register
II-2 Number Systems Other Than Decimal: The Binary System
II-3 Binary Arithmetic
II-4 A Project
Exercises
III Elementary Digital Logic
III-1 Electrical Implementation of Simple Logical Statements: Buffers and Gates
III-2 Combining Gates for More Complex Functions
III-3 Information and Logic
III-4 Transistors as Logic Circuit Elements
III-5 Projects
Exercises
IV Introduction to More Complex Circuits
IV-1 Flip-Flops and Latches
IV-2 Registers and Counters
IV-3 Memories
IV-4 Miscellaneous Devices
Exercises
V The Arithmetic Logic Unit
VI The Microprocessor
VI-1 The Generic Microprocessor
VI-2 Microprocessor Operation
VII From Microprocessors to Microcomputers
VII-1 A Simple Limited-Performance System
VII-2 Introduction to Programming, Using the Low-Performance System
VII-3 A Higher Performance System
VII-4 Another Programming Example Including I/O and Arithmetic Operations
VII-5 A Project
Exercises
Appendix
VIII Completing the Automated System
VIII-1 Evolution of an Automated Spectrometer Design
IX Interface Devices and Auxiliary Circuits
IX-1 The Digital-to-Analog Converter
IX-2 The Analog-to-Digital Converter
IX-3 Accommodation of Bit-Serial Data Transmission
IX-4 Electromechanical Devices
IX-5 Isolation Devices
X An Exercise Design for a Microprocessor Automated Instrument System
X-1 The Overall System
X-2 Instrument Control
X-3 Data Acquisition and Processing
X-4 Display
X-5 Some Additional Comments
Exercises
Index