Books about chips/electronics/programming

Contents:

Data books

Archer's Semiconductor Replacement Guide

Sold by Tandy/Radio Shack

Includes over 118000 semiconductor substitutions.

BIOS Companion, the

Phil Croucher
Electrocution
Technical Support Services, Unit 7c
Stonefield Park, Chilbolton S20 6BL
U.K.
Overview of DIMM's SIMM's etc.
Appendix A contains an overview of the memory chips of: AEP, Alliance, Array Technology, AT&T, Cypress Multichip, Dense-Pac, EDI, Fujitsu, Goldstar, Harris, Hitachi, Hyundai, IC* Works, Inmos, Inova, Logic Devices, Micron, Mitsubishi, Mosaic, Mosel, Mostek, Motorola, National, NEC, OKI, Paradigm, Performance, Quality, Samsung, SGS, Sharp, Siemens, Sony, TI, Toshiba, Valtronic, Vitarel, White Technology en Zyrel.

AT Bus Design

Solari

Covers the ISA-bus* in painful detail.
About as much fun as reading an ISO document though.

Component Identifier and Source Book

Victor Meeldijk
384 Pages
About $25
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-7906-1088-4

PROMPT Publications
Howard W. Sams and Company
2647 Waterfront Pkwy., E. Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46214-2041
tel: +1-800-428-7267
fax: +1-317-298-5604

This book was written for the electronics engineer, technician or electronics enthusiast who has to identify a component from a part number on a schematic diagram or locate a manufacturer from a logo. This book is a vital tool for anyone who wants to make the process of identifying and locating components easier and faster.

This valuable guide will help you cross reference component types to manufacturers and also contains sections that cross reference trade names, abbreviations and part number prefixes to the manufacturer. Listings of worldwide manufacturing and sales office addresses are also provided and there is also a special listing of manufacturers who provide replacement devices and vendors who specialize in stocking and locating discontinued devices.

Sections in the Component Identifier and Source Book include:

Logos for manufacturer identification
Cross references of abbreviated manufacturer names to the proper manufacturer name
Component prefixes and part number types for identifying parts from schematics and parts listings.
Cross references to new manufacturers from mergers and acquisitions
Nationwide manufacturer offices
Worldwide addresses
Product locator listing
Manufacturers and distributors of obsolete parts
And much more.

D.A.T.A. Book

Sold by Farnell (for example)
http://www.farnell.com/

This is not the same as the IC-Master.

Data-Tek Semiconductor Price Guide

Data-Tek
15231 Alton Parkway
Irvine, CA 92618
USA
tel: +1-714-753-8000
fax: +1-714-753-7825
scott@powerd.com

http://www.powerd.com/datatek/

Comprehensive guide to current published pricing of major manufacturers.
Data-Tek encompasses: Integrated Circuits, Transistors and Diodes.

Publish Semiconductor Pricing of Major Manufacturers.
Data-Tek also has it own software.

Dioden Datenbuch 1980/81

(in German)
Siemens AG, Bereich Bauelemente, Produkt-Informationen,
Balanstraße 73
8000 München 80
Bestell-Nr. B/2239

Encyclopedea of Electronic Circuits (5 volumes)

Basically the books are collections of circuits pulled from various sources and broken down into categories (timers, transmitters, converters, etc.).

I have looked at them in the bookstore in the past for ideas and for that purpose they seem nice. They do not (nor are they intended to) teach anything about electronics, but are more for ideas/examples. They are fairly expensive, but I have the opportunity to purchase Volumes 1-4 for $120 new.

Jerry Fountain <gof@jules.chem-eng.nwu.edu>

I don't think they're very useful; certainly not worth the price. For circuit examples, the various semi makers' databooks can't be beat, especially National Semiconductor's and Linear Technology's Linear Applications Handbooks.

Dave

Like the other folks, I agree that they're not *frequently* useful, but they've done me some good at least once or twice a year.
Yeah, they're not much on depth and they use some seriously out-of-date or oddball parts on occasion, but most of it is adaptable to current parts.
They're OK if you don't have the vaguest idea on how to do something and are looking for clues, but I don't think I've EVER used any of the designs verbatim.
If you're a rich infomaniac, go ahead and get 'em, but don't expect much.
They're certainly not worth the expense, except in rare cases.

Stan Eker

Howard W. Sams Internet Guide to the Electronic Industry

J. Adams (jadams@henry.net, jadams@idirect.com)
1996

http://www.hwsams.com/
http://pobox.com/~electronics/eguide/
http://web.idirect.com/~ifx/
http://www.henry.net/~ifx/book/

The book is a simple directory for electronics related resources on the Web and Net. It contains aprox: 1300 URLs.

It mentions this ChipDir...

IC* Cross Reference Book

By the Engineers of Howard W. Sams and Company
168 pages
About $20
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-7906-1049-3

http://www.hwsams.com/reference_titles.html

The complete guide to IC* and module replacements and substitutions. Covers more than 35,000 IC* replacements compiled from manufacturers' data in an easy-to-use cross reference.

IC-Master

Hearst Business Publishing/UTP* Division
645 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
tel: +1-516-227-1300
tel: +1-800-833-7138 - Credit Card Orders

Lots of chip data in a set of (expensive) books.
Seems to be about $180 for three quite big books.

There is also a CD-ROM version, see in the CD-ROMs section.

Kluwer's Internationale Transistor Gids

(in Dutch)

Vierde druk, 1991
Vertaling: Copytronics, Gorssel - Johan Smilde
Order from Amazon: ISBN 90-201-2519-2 , D/1991/0108/166, NUGI 832

Dit is een vertaling van Towers' International Transistor Selector
Het bevat meer dan 29.000 Amerikaanse, Engelse en Japanse transistoren met elektrische en mechanische specificaties, fabrikanten en beschikbare vervangingsmogelijkheden.

Translation:

Kluwer's International Transistor Guide
(in Dutch)
Fourth printing, 1991
Translation: Coptronics, Gorssel - Johan Smilde

This is a translation of Towers' International Transistors Selector.
It lists more than 29000 American, English and Japanese transistors with electrical and mechanical specifications, manufacturers and available replacement prosibilities.
The book consists mainly of one big transistor table, so you could even use the Dutch book, if you can't get the English version...

Programmers PC Sourcebook, the

Thom Hogan
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1-55615-118-7
Microsoft press
Penguin books

All kinds of table's about the PC (Hardware and software).
Also lots about peripheral chip's registers and connectors etc.

Semiconductor Cross Reference Book

By the Engineering Staff of Howard W. Sams & Company
Fourth Edition
680 pages
About $25
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-7906-1080-9

http://www.hwsams.com/reference_titles.html

Most comprehensive guide to semiconductor replacement data including 500,000 part numbers crossed to ECG, NTE, Radio Shack and SK replacement part numbers.

Towers' International Transistor Selector

W. Foulsham & Co Ltd, London
W. Foulsham & Co
18900 Olive Ave.
Sonoma, CA 95476
http://pma-online.org/list/2669.html

Tube Substitution Handbook

by William Smith and Barry Buchanan
149 pages
Howard W. Sams and Company
http://www.hwsams.com/reference_titles.html
About $17
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-7906-1036-1

The most accurate tube guide available today, this book provides direct substitutes for vacuum and picture tubes, including a section of tube base diagrams for more accurate replacements.

Tutorial books

8088 Project Book, The

Robert Grossblatt
Tab book, 1989
About $25
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-8306-0271-2

It has all design info and specs with a good general discussion and pitfalls to avoid too.

Art of Electronics, the

Horowitz and Hill
Second Edition
Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
http://www.artofelectronics.com/
Hardback: Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-521-37095-7

This seems to be THE book on electronics.

Jaap

"I've hunted high and low for good electronics textbooks. This one is the best, bar none. No extraneous math, lots of insider's information ... and a huge range of topics covered clearly and thoroughly. So well written that I've had difficulty putting it down!"

CoEvolution Quarterly

Art of Programming Embedded Systems, the

Jack G. Ganssle
Academic Press

BASIC Stamp

Claus Kuhnel and Klaus Zahnert
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-7506-9891-8
CDN source:
US source:
Gives examples of I2C (and other) chip interfacing.

Beginners Guide to the Microchip PIC, A

Nigel Gardner

I have the book, it is geared for the ABSOLUTE beginner, I found it quite good at the start although quite slow. For somebody with no experience in microcontroller design - get this book otherwise try his cook book which gives lots of applications. Another good buy is the embedded controller handbook and even the PIC data book has all the info required to start programming the PICs.

Neil <neil2@mdx.ac.uk>

C Language Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing

Paul M. Embree and Bruce Kimble
Prentice-Hall, 1991

Controlling the World With Your PC

Paul Bergsman
1994
Hightext

Basic theory and projects using PC ports for motor, switch and sensor control.

C Programming for Midi

Jim Conger
M&T Books, Publisher
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-934375-90-9 (Book + Disk)

CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae

William H. Beyer (Editor)
CRC Press

Data Acquisition and Process Control with the M68HC11 Microcontroller

Driscoll, Coughlin and Villanucci
1994
Macmillan
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-02-330555-X

It's a pretty good book.
Barnes and Noble bookstore ordered it for me.
It cost about $65 + tax but I think its worth it.
This book starts with basics and goes into intermediate to slightly advanced programming.
It has some excellent examples of interfacing the microcontroller with peripheral circuits for various uses.

Joe T. Guest, Jr. (jguest@fau.campus.mci.net, jguest@acc.fau.edu)

Digital Systems Design and Prototyping Using Field Programmable Logic

Zoran Salcic and Asim Smailagic
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Norwell, MA
tel: +1-617-871-6600
Overview of PLD and FPGA technology, applications and design techniques.
See EDN Europe, 19971009/pg 20

Discrete Time Signal processing

Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schaefer.
Prentice Hall
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-13-216771-9 .

General introduction into DSP usage.

Easy PIC'n

A beginner's guide to using PIC16/17 microcontrollers
David Benson
About $30
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-9654162-0-8 ,

Square 1 Electronics
POB 501
Kelseyville, CA 95451
USA
tel: +1-707-279-8881
fax: +1-707-279-8883
squareone@zapcom.net
sqone@pacific.net

http://www.sq-1.com/

Introductory level PIC book, see table of contents at the Web site

Great book!

Electronics, A Systems Approach

Neil Storey
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-201-17558-4
About $30
Addison-Wesley

Assumes you know the basics. Covers what to do with what you know. The ins/outs. Practical Applications and why things work (verses how).

Handbook of Data Communications

John D. Lenk
Prentice-Hall, 1984

Hard Real-Time Systems

J. Stankovic & K. Ramamritham
IEEE Press, 1988

Intelligent Embedded Systems

Louis L. Odette
Addison-Wesley, 1991

Master Handbook of IC* Circuit Applications, the

3rd ed.
Horn, Delton T.
Published: May 1997
Paperback, about $35, Order from Amazon: ISBN 0070305633
Hardcover, about $45, Order from Amazon: ISBN 0070305625

Master IC* Cookbook, the

3rd ed.
Horn, Delton T.
Published: Mar 1997
Paperback
About $35
Order from Amazon: ISBN 007030565X

Mechanical Devices For the Electronics Experimenter

Britt Rorabaugh
McGraw Hill, 1995

Design of gears, belts, levers, pulleys, motors, solenoids, springs, ratchets, hydraulics, and the circuits to control them.

Microcontroller Beginner's Handbook

Lawarence Duarte, Prompt Pub (Sams), 1996

General intro and several PIC (non-robot) beginner projects.

Microcontroller Cookbook

Mike James
Published by Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date: 19971104
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0750627018

Microcontroller Idea Book, the

Jan Axelson <jaxelson@lvr.com>
Lakeview Research, 1994

One of the better project books for the Intel 8052. Includes motor control and wireless communication.

Jan Zumwalt <zumwalt@alaska.net>

The example circuits and programs are based on the the 8052-BASIC chip and there is a lot of material on programming in BASIC52.
This book is very useful even if you use a standard 8051 part.
Lots of different interfacing ideas including: Sensors, motors, LEDs, LCDs, wireless links and a LOT more.

Russ Hersch

Microcontrollers and Microcomputers: Principles of Software and Hardware Engineering

Fredrick M. Cady,
Oxford University Press, 1997, Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-19-511008-0
For more information email: Marcy Levine <college@oup-usa.org> or Fredrick M. Cady <fcady@ee.montana.edu>
A web site supporting this text with more information is: http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/cady/books/main.htm

Microcontrollers: Architecture, Implementation and Programming

Hitz, Kenneth and Tabak, Daniel
McGraw-Hill Inc. 1992

Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11

Peter Spasov <pspasov@flemingc.on.ca>
Prentice Hall
http://fleming0.flemingc.on.ca/~pspasov/mcu/mcu.htm

Microprocessor-based design

By Michael Slater
About 1992

I think all of you hungry for information on hardware design should know about a book. It's called "Microprocessor-based design" by Michael Slater and I think it's a hell of a good book. I got my copy from a friend who got it from a computer book club. Sorry, I loosed contact with him, so I can't tell anything better. The book covers almost every topic I can think of in hardware design and classifies them by chapter. All the textual explanation of the 765 and 179X chips is in there, for example, in the "MASS STORAGE" chapter.
It also includes other chapters:
In every case, tips on what are the weaknesses and strong points of each possible selection is given. I got the book about 4 years and I REALLY LOVED IT since the very begining. It still is a very good source of both theory and practical information. I think a must in any microprocessor crazed guy's bookshelf.

And, I am* just someone who bought and read the book (no bussiness here.)

Benhail Acosta Mejia (or.cor@codete.net.do ?)
Hector Saint-Hilaire
Dominican Republic

Mobile Robots

A. Flynn and J. Jones
AK Peters Ltd., 1993

Mobile Robots Inspiration to Implementation

Joseph L. Jones and Anita M. Flynn
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1-56881-011-3
About $40

I found at least 200 robotics books at the UCSD library and this is the only one I rated "must have" for anyone considering autonomous Rug Warrior, 6.270, Handy Board and similar robot projects.

Richard T. Vannoy II <richardv@abac.com>

Numerical Recipes in C

William H. Press, et al
Cambridge University Press

Numerical Software Tools in C

James Kempf
Prentice-Hall, 1987

Numerical Techniques

Don Morgan
M&T Books
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1-55851-232-2

Parallel Port Complete

Jan Axelson
Lakeview Research, 1996

Interfacing design and communication, includes EPP, ECP, IEE-1284.

PCI Hardware and Software: Architecture and Design

Edward Solari and George Willse
Published in 1994
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-929392-19-1

Annabooks
San Diego, CA
tel: +1-(619) 673-0870

(reviewed by Norman Rasmussen and Brad Hosler at Intel)

PCI System Architecture

MindShare, Inc. Tom Shanley and Don Anderson
Third Edition published in 1995
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-201-40993-3

Addison Wesley
tel: +1-800-822-6339

PIC'n Up* The Pace

David Benson

Square 1 Electronics
POB 501
Kelseyville, CA 95451
USA
tel: +1-707-279-8881
fax: +1-707-279-8883
squareone@zapcom.net
sqone@pacific.net

http://www.sq-1.com/

Intermediate level PIC book, see table of contents at the Web site

PICs in Practice

F.P. Volpe & S. Volpe
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-905705-51-3
US source:
European source:
Gives examples of I2C (and other) chip interfacing. It has a decent tutorial using Parallax's nmemonics and extensive use of register diagrams.

POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World

Bill O. Gallmeister
O'Reilly and Associates
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1-56592-074-0

Practical Design Using Programmable Logic

David Pellerin/Michael Holley
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-13-723834-7
Prentice Hall

It answered a lot of my question! My copy (1991) is somewhat dated but still usefull. There could very well be a more recent edition.

Grant Beattie <grantb@nait.ab.ca>

Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis, a

Klein, et al
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

Programming Microcontrollers in C

Ted Van Sickle
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1878707140

For the HC05, HC11, and HC16 processors.

Real-Time Computing with Applications to Data Acquisition and Control

Duncan A. Mellichamp (Editor)
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983

Real-time microcomputer system design

P. Lawrence
McGraw-Hill, 1987

Real-Time Microprocessor Systems

Steve Savitzky
Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Real-Time Programming - Neglected Topics

Caxton C. Foster
Addison-Wesley, 1981

Real-time Software for Control

David M. Auslander and Cheng H. Tham
Prentice-Hall

Real-Time Software Techniques

W. S. Heath
Van Nostrand Reinhold

Real-Time Systems and their Programming Languages

Alan Burns and Andy Wellings
Addison-Wesley, 1990

Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis - an Engineer's Handbook

Phillip A. Laplante
IEEE Press, 1992

Robot Builder's Bonanza

Gordon McComb's.

This seems to be a MUST-OWN for any experimenter.

Safety-Critical Computer Systems

Neil Storey
Addison-Wesley, 1996
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-201-42787-7

Simple Approach to Digital Signal Processing, A

Craig Marvin and Gillian Ewers
1996, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-471-15243-9

Single- and Multiple-Chip Microcomputer Interfacing

G.L. Lipovski
Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-13-810557-x 025 {Prentice-Hall Ed.}
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-13-810573-1
Laboratory Manual:
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-13-811605-9

Software and Hardware Engineering: Motorola M68HC11

Fredrick M. Cady
1997
Oxford University Press
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-19-511008-0
For more information email: Marcy Levine <college@oup-usa.org> or Fredrick M. Cady <fcady@ee.montana.edu>
See the website http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/cady/books/supl1.htm for more information and text support.

Steuer- und Regelungstechnik mit Single-Chip-Mikroprozessoren

Michael Rose
1991
Huethig Buch Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg
Order from Amazon: ISBN 3-7785-2063-6

Mit Softwarebeispiele Cross-Assembler Diskette und Leiterplatte

Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics

Stan Gibilisco.
Tab Books (McGraw Hill)
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-8306-4133-5
About $25.
Covers DC, AC (in depth) and Basic Electronics. Heavy math. Great introductory text.

The "Hamburger" Book

Testing Semiconductor Memories - Theory and Practice

A.J. van de Goor
1991
John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NR 10158-0012
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-471-92586-1

This book contains all of the standard testing methods and analysis techniques for testing memory.

Understanding Telephone Electronics

Howard W. Sams and Co
Order from Amazon: ISBN 0-672-27018-18

Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols, the

Tim Kientzle
1995
Coriolis Group Books, Scottsdale, AZ
Order from Amazon: ISBN 1-883577-20-9

Includes source for all common protocols including xmodem, zmodem, kermit, etc. Plus material on developing your own protocol.

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http://www.smtnet.com/bookstor.html

Other impressive list of books.

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New books on electronic design and manufacturing. Parts are also on the WWW!

http://www.bh.com/newnes - More tutorials at Newnes
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