Interfacing with C, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. Preface
6. Preface to second edition
7. Chapter 1: An introduction to C
   1. Properties and background
   2. Fundamental interfacing
   3. Programmable input–output devices
   4. 8255 programmable peripheral interface
   5. Programming the 8255
   6. IBM PC bus
   7. Accessing specific memory locations with C
   8. Reading the contents of I/O space using pointers
   9. C program development
   10. Variables
   11. Data type
   12. Qualifiers
   13. Reading the status of an input port
   14. Controlling printf()
   15. The coercion operator: cast
   16. Writing from keyboard to output port
   17. Entering data using scanf()
8. Chapter 2: Loops and data conversion
   1. Repetition: unconditional jumps
   2. Named constants #define
   3. Infamous goto
   4. For-loops in greater detail – in a binary counter
   5. Port monitoring with a do-while construction
   6. Light chaser effect
   7. Communicating with peripherals
   8. Successive approximation
   9. Flash conversion
   10. Dual and quad slope conversion
   11. Synchronization and software control
   12. 12-bit A-to-D conversion
   13. IBM-PC AD574A interface
9. Chapter 3: Data acquisition using C
   1. Data capture using CGA graphics
   2. Controlling the coordinate
   3. Data capture with EGA graphics
   4. Background and foreground colour
   5. Building a Windows Application
   6. Transducer interfacing with C/C++
   7. Conditioning the signal voltage
   8. Simplifying program development
   9. Displaying temperature using EGA graphics
   10. Introducing random noise
   11. A linear transducer
   12. Measurement of light intensity
   13. Statement of the problem
10. Chapter 4: Essential mathematics
    1. How many snapshots?
    2. Mathematical modelling
    3. Laplace transforms
    4. Electronic calculus
    5. Modelling A-to-D conversion
    6. Zero-order sample-and-hold
    7. z-notation – the algebra of sampled data systems
11. Chapter 5: Convolution
    1. Matching analogue signals and systems
    2. Frequency-shifting rule
    3. Convolution
    4. Graphical interpretation of the convolution integral
    5. Obtaining the digital output recursively
    6. Digital feedback
    7. Obtaining the digital output by convolution
    8. Reconciling time-domain and frequency-domain processes
    9. Computerized convolution
    10. System response testing
    11. Applying the program
    12. Sophisticated applications
12. Chapter 6: Digital filters
    1. Peripheral hardware requirements
    2. Conversion of sinusoidal signals
    3. Analogue and digital filters
    4. Recursive software
    5. Poles and zeros
    6. Band-pass digital filters
    7. Real-time band-pass filter
    8. The bilinear transform
    9. Reverberation
13. Chapter 7: Fourier transforms
    1. Fourier transforms using a PC
    2. Discrete Fourier transform DFT
    3. Developing and explaining the program
    4. Graphical spectral analysis
    5. Understanding the logical system of coordinates
    6. Applying the DFT program
    7. Streamlining the arithmetic using the fast Fourier transform
    8. How many multiplications?
    9. FFT with real-time data capture and graphics
    10. Control of the peripheral board and data capture
    11. Signal truncation and spectral leakage
    12. Reducing spectral spreading with a Hanning window
14. Chapter 8: Correlation
    1. Correlation methods using a PC
    2. Linear systems and random inputs
    3. Wiener–Khintchine theorem
    4. Autocorrelation
    5. Effect of finite observation time
    6. Calculating discrete autocorrelation functions
    7. Computing the autocorrelation function
    8. Anatomy of the program
    9. Graphical autocorrelation
    10. Applying the program
    11. ACF of sampled sine wave
    12. ACF of decaying exponential
    13. White noise
    14. Generating random noise and computing the ACF
    15. Anatomy of the program
    16. Using autocorrelation to detect noise-corrupted signals
    17. ACF with real-time data capture and graphics
    18. Autocorrelation in the real world
    19. The cross-correlation function
    20. System testing and characterization using random noise
    21. Order out of chaos
15. Chapter 9: Kalman filters
    1. Kalman filters – predicting uncertainty
    2. Characterizing stochastic noise – Noddies’ guide to statistics
    3. Tracking a time-varying signal in the presence of noise – optimal estimation
    4. Applied optimal control
    5. Real-time Kalman filter
    6. Simplifying the design – the steady-state Kalman filter
    7. Appendices
16. Chapter 10: Data conversion
    1. Digital-to-analogue conversion
    2. A primitive digitally controlled potentiometer
    3. Buffering a binary-weighted resistor network
    4. R-2R ladder network
    5. Analog devices AD7226 D-to-A converter
    6. Waveform generation using a D-to-A and C
    7. Generating sine waves – real-time and playback digital synthesis
    8. Waveform synthesis
    9. Software-based random-noise generator
    10. Digital transfer functions and waveform modification
    11. Generating echo and reverberation
    12. Historical records and circular buffers
    13. Anti-aliasing filters and filtering the D-to-A output
    14. Quantization noise
    15. Simulating audio reverberation
    16. Special audio effects
17. Chapter 11: Investigating the spectral and time-domain performance of z-transforms using computer-managed instruction
    1. Characterizing the frequency-selective properties of the rational function
    2. A description of the frequency-selective properties of zeros
    3. Programs listed in Appendix 2
18. Chapter 12: Introduction to digital signal processing
    1. Analog Devices
    2. Motorola
    3. Texas Instruments
    4. Software
    5. Fixed point arithmetic
    6. Application specific
19. Chapter 13: Standard programming structures
    1. Introduction
    2. Modular design
    3. The internal structure of modules
    4. Standard programming structures
    5. Eight different ways to convert temperature in Celsius to Fahrenheit using C-based code
    6. The sequence construct
    7. Using the pre-processor directive
    8. The repetition construct
    9. Branching and looping
    10. Writing functions in C
    11. Commentary
    12. Using purpose-built I/O functions – Peeking and Poking
    13. Using the functions peek() and peekb()
    14. Using the functions poke() and pokeb()
    15. Port-mapped data transfer
    16. Input circuit
    17. Output circuit
    18. Computer part of the problem
    19. Microsoft C I/O calls
    20. Turbo C I/O calls
20. Appendix 1
21. Appendix 2: Listings of programs described in Chapter 11
22. Glossary
23. Index