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About the author:
Through his work with Motorola Semiconductors, the author has been
involved in the design and development of microprocessor-based systems since 1982.
These designs have included VMEbus systems, microcontrollers, IBM PCs, Apple
Macintoshes, and both CISC- and RISC-based multiprocessor systems, while using
operating systems as varied as MS-DOS, UNIX, Macintosh OS and real-time kernels.
An avid user of computer systems, he has had over 60 articles and papers published
in the electronics press, as well as several books.
Embedded Systems Design
Second edition
Steve Heath
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First published 1997
Reprinted 2000, 2001
Second edition 2003
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