Mechatronics: Electronic Control Systems In Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, 7th Edition by Pearson

Chapter ten

Microprocessors and microcontrollers

Objectives

The objectives of this chapter are that, after studying it, the reader should be able to:

• Describe the basic structure of a microprocessor system.
• Describe the architecture of common microprocessors and how they can be incorporated in microprocessor systems.
• Describe the basic structure of microcontrollers and how their registers can be set up to carry out tasks.
• Explain how programs can be developed using flow charts and pseudocode.

10.1 Control

If we take a simple control problem, e.g. the sequencing of the red, amber and green lights at a traffic crossing, then it should be possible to solve it by an electronic control system involving combinational and sequential logic integrated ...