This book includes 15 programming and constructional projects, and covers the range of AVR chips currently available, including the recent Tiny AVR. No prior experience with microcontrollers is assumed. John Morton is author of the popular PIC: Your Personal Introductory Course, also published by Newnes.
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By S. Ellis
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This book takes a structured, step-by-step approach to software and hardware development with the AVR microcontrollers. As such, it should have merited 5 stars.
But, it suffers from one minor and two major defects.
First, and least importantly, the writing style is rather variable. It's the exclamation marks that get me annoyed! This gives some sections a rather breathless gosh-wow feel to them!
Second, and more severely, typographical errors abound. While these will be obvious to many seasoned developers, the target audience of new AVR users will be flummoxed by them. One early section uses 320 ohm resistors (try finding them - the common value is 330 ohm), and repeatedly uses an OUT instruction to read a port value (it should be IN).
Lastly, this appears to be a based on Mr Morton's previous book on PIC microcontrollers, to the point that one of the appendices is headed "Table of PICs". This leads to some problems in the hardware designs, particularly with driving LED displays. The AVR can only drive LEDs reasonably well using one type of connection, and it is not the way that most of the LEDs in this book are wired up. Many of the designs omit current limiting resistors, too. This can lead to (at best) bad practice, and (at worst) dead chips.
I hope that these errors will have been rectified for edition 2.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book is very useful, especially if you've had experience of other microcontrollers, such as Microchip's PIC.
Unlike in some books, the worked projects are actually useful and easy to folllow.
There a a few strange things about the book (such as binary numbers with a bit missing), but the detailed explanations easily make up for it.
It only focuses on assembly code, not C, but usefully shows how to use Atmel's compling tools and simulator. The quick-reference guides at the back are definately a bonus as well.
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By Dale A. Haines
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I bought this as I'm having a bash at understanding and using the Atmel AVR series of micro-controller devices.
So far it seems a good book although due to its age it relates to versions of the AVR which are now either very scarce or very expensive to purchase (AT90S1200 for example)
I think a rewrite/update to cover things like the TINY and AtMega devices with suitable examples would take this book to 5 stars for me.
That may just be though that I am still a tyro in AVR programming.
I must add that I think this is a better written book than the similar one by the same author for PIC programming which I found very hard going.
But we all have to start somewhere and this book seems better than much of the on-line stuff and far, far superior to things like AVR projects for the evil genius which is utter tosh.
So far it seems a good book although due to its age it relates to versions of the AVR which are now either very scarce or very expensive to purchase (AT90S1200 for example)
I think a rewrite/update to cover things like the TINY and AtMega devices with suitable examples would take this book to 5 stars for me.
That may just be though that I am still a tyro in AVR programming.
I must add that I think this is a better written book than the similar one by the same author for PIC programming which I found very hard going.
But we all have to start somewhere and this book seems better than much of the on-line stuff and far, far superior to things like AVR projects for the evil genius which is utter tosh.
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