Interfacing with C, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Preface

Preface to second edition

Chapter 1: An introduction to C

Properties and background

Fundamental interfacing

Programmable input–output devices

8255 programmable peripheral interface

Programming the 8255

IBM PC bus

Accessing specific memory locations with C

Reading the contents of I/O space using pointers

C program development

Variables

Data type

Qualifiers

Reading the status of an input port

Controlling printf()

The coercion operator: cast

Writing from keyboard to output port

Entering data using scanf()

Chapter 2: Loops and data conversion

Repetition: unconditional jumps

Named constants #define

Infamous goto

For-loops in greater detail – in a binary counter

Port monitoring with a do-while ...