Electronics Circuit Design and Programming, Microcontrollers, PLC, VLSI, etc.

This text book is intended for under-graduate Engineering and/or IT students studying micro-controllers and embedded systems. It covers mainly the Intel 8051 family of micro-controllers starting with the basic architecture and then moves on to assembly language and Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) where three main types of self-developed RTOSs are discussed (with full source code listing).

This book examines the current issues restricting chip-on-chip communication efficiency, and explores Network-on-chip (NoC), a promising alternative that equips designers with the capability to produce a scalable, reusable, and high-performance communication backbone by allowing for the integration of a large number of cores on a single system-on-chip (SoC).