April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
9h 32m
English
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Input & Output
We can now proceed to the main business of this book – describing a range of
input & output techniques which will help you to design microcontroller cir-
cuits. Today, the typical MCU-based consumer product can be extremely com-
plex, and contains a wide range of technologies around the main controller.
The mobile phone is a good example; in addition to the sophisticated digital
communications subsystem which provides its main function, it can also have
a full-colour, medium resolution liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, camera,
sound system and so on. A detailed understanding of these technologies re-
quires a very high level of engineering ...