Book Info
Provides an understanding of how PC interface devices are programmed using software and how they integrate to create a system. Uses C as the main software language as it allows low-level, direct access to the hardware. Paper.
From the Back Cover
Using good practical examples, this new book introduces the reader to the component parts of a PC, showing how high and low level languages communicate with them, and how computers communicate with peripherals. Applied PC Interfacing, Graphics and Interrupts provides an understanding of how the specification of component parts of a PC affects overall system performance, and it also develops an applications-led approach to computer interfacing. In his book, William Buchanan takes a programming language-independent approach to computer interfacing, provides an introduction to interfacing using standard hardware devices, includes good practical examples, and covers specialist areas such as computer interfacing and graphics.All the programs used in the text, as well as the digital input/output emulator software, are available over the Internet at http://www.eece.napier.ac.uk/~bill_b/ibook.html, and help is available from the author by sending him an e-mail to w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk.
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About the Author
William Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh. He acts as a consultant for British Gas, among other companies, and he is a founding partner of Real-Time Technologies, Ltd.
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Applied PC Interfacing: Graphics and Interrupts FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book is about how peripheral devices (that is printers, keyboards, monitors, mice, modems, etc.) communicate with PC, the programs needed to make this happen and how each device affects the overall systems performance, Using a programming independent approach, it develops an applications led approach to computer interfacing.