Product Description: This book originates as an essential underlying component of a modern, imaginative three-semester honors program (six undergraduate courses) in Mathematical Studies. In its entirety, it covers Algebra, Geometry and Analysis in One Variable...read more

Product Description: Field-Programmable Custom Computing Technology: Architectures, Tools, and Applications brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area. In seven selected chapters, the book describes the latest advances in architectures, design methods, and applications of field-programmable devices for high-performance reconfigurable systems...read more

Product Description: Multiprocessor Execution of Logic Programs addresses the problem of efficient implementation of logic programming languages, specifically Prolog, on multiprocessor architectures. The approaches and implementations developed attempt to take full advantage of sequential implementation technology developed for Prolog (such as the WAM) while exploiting all forms of control parallelism present in logic programs, namely, or-parallelism, independent and-parallelism and dependent and-parallelism...read more

Product Description: DVD includes: 7+ HOURS OF VIDEO INSTRUCTION 50 TIPS & TECHNIQUES SKILLS YOU CAN LEARN IN Fifteen MINUTES OR LESS   In Excel VBA and Macros with MrExcel, renowned Excel instructor and author Bill Jelen (MrExcel) teaches all the skills you’ll need to automate virtually any routine task with Excel and build powerful Excel macros! This package brings together nearly eight hours hours of personalized, expert video training: 50 quick, practical video lessons that demonstrate all the skills you’ll need to successfully use both the Excel macro recorder and the Visual Basic for Applications development environment...read more

Everyone knows how overwhelming planning a wedding can be, so what's a bride-to-be to do? It's much easier to learn what not to do, and let everything fall into place for a lovely, unforgettable wedding. This guide tells you what not to do with plenty of etiquette and money-saving tips.Included in the book is advice like: Mistake #11: Getting bossed into inviting too many guests; Mistake #89: Getting a cheap aisle runner; Mistake #146: Wearing troublesome undergarments; and more. Each entry is ranked with an icon, such as major catastrophe or money-waster. This book advises on entertainment, wardrobe, toasts, décor, locations, family, guests, budget, vendors, wedding party, and more.Don' be blindsided by mistakes that plague every bride and groom. With this book, you'll figure them out ahead of time and have no regrets on your perfect day.

Product Description: From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But at this year’s gathering, people are mysteriously dying. Intrepid sleuths Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman join the caravan in order to uncover the truth behind the deaths, in the process revealing an international plot that the sinister Gaiuse Strome will stop at nothing to keep secret...read more

Representing the first volume in what will become a complete series for the IBM personal computer and compatibles, this book provides a practical foundation for computer users who need to become expert in the 80X86 family. The series will take the reader in a step-wise format through each phase of assembly language programming, design and interfacing.

Statement list (STL) and structured control language (SCL) are the text-oriented programming languages in the programming software STEP 7. Now in its fourth edition, this book is an introduction into the latest version of STEP 7. It describes elements and applications for use with both SIMATIC S7-300 and SIMATIC S7-400, including the applications with PROFINET. It is aimed at all users of SIMATIC S7 controllers. First-time users are introduced to the field of programmable controllers, while advanced users learn about specific applications of the SIMATIC S7 automation system.SIMATIC is the worldwide established automation system for implementing industrial control systems for machines, manufacturing plants and industrial processes. Relevant open-loop and closed-loop control tasks are formulated in various programming languages with the programming software STEP 7. All programming examples found in the book - and even a few extra examples - are available at the download area of the publisher's website: www.publicis-erlangen.de/books

Product Description: Here's an entire learning solution in one book, complete with detailed coverage, questions, problems, and lab experiments! Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Systems Featuring the 8085 details the 8085 processor, from both a hardware and software standpoint...read more

Provides information on designing devices that share and store data with PCs and other USB hosts.

Well known in this discipline to be the most concise yet adequate treatment of the subject matter, it provides just enough detail in a direct exposition of the 8051 microcontroller’s internal hardware components. This book provides an introduction to microcontrollers, a hardware summary, and an instruction set summary. It covers timer operation, serial port operation, interrupt operation, assembly language programming, 8051 C programming, program structure and design, and tools and techniques for program development. For microprocessor programmers, electronic engineering specialist, computer scientists, or electrical engineers.

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

For microprocessor courses teaching the 80x86 family.Praised by experts for its clarity and topical breadth, this visually appealing, one-stop source on PCs uses an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach to teaching the fundamentals of 80x86 assembly language programming and PC architecture. Offering students a fun, hands-on learning experience, it uses the Debug utility to show what action the instruction performs, then provides a sample program to show its application. Reinforcing concepts with numerous examples and review questions, its oversized pages delve into dozens of related subjects, including DOS memory map, BIOS, microprocessor architecture, supporting chips, buses, interfacing techniques, system programming, memory hierarchy, DOS memory management, tables of instruction timings, hard disk characteristics, and more. (view table of contents)

Product Description: * Understand essential hardware details * Walk through an embedded system startup * Build an extensible development platform * Prebuilt GNU X-Tools for 21 platforms Build embedded microprocessor-based systems from the ground up. Develop an integrated und (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Based on the authors popular monthly column in Nuts & Volts magazine, this is the first complete English-language guide to BASIC Stamp -- the easy-to-use, single-board computer that runs a PIC microcontroller. It walks hobbyists through 12 complete projects, from traffic light simulators to robot runabouts, that illustrate how to program Stamp applications on DOS or Windows PCs. True novices will find plenty of background material, such as how to read schematics and identify components. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Much praised for its clearly written, easy-to-read/understand style, this text provides thorough, current, single-volume coverage of all Intel 80x86 microprocessors relative to their application in the PC, and is as much an introduction to the PC itself as to Intel chips...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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