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Title: The 8051 Microcontroller: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing (2nd Edition) by James W. Stewart, Kai Miao ISBN: 0-13-531948-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $94.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not for beginners!!
Comment: I have experience in technology level basic electronics, PLC's, some Industrial Instrumentation, some digital, and I've had C++. I'll admit I'm not a whizz at any of it, but then again I don't think I'm stupid. I bought this book based on the high reviews thinking it would be the hot ticket-I was disappointed. Chapters 1 & 2 covers memory organization, interrupts, and timers. The tutorial at 8052.com(free) does a lot better job at explaining this material. The book has some assembler programs, but it doesn't explain the basics of assembler at all- doesn't explain directives like org, equ, and rs. The course at hkrmicro.com(free)does a lot better job of explaining assembler than this book. Then chapter 3 gets into interfacing the micro. It has some good material about swtiches, but then jumps into more advanced material like switch matrixs, encoding and so on. Why jump to this material when you haven't even explained the very basics? Why not start with some simpler interfacing , explain it, show the code, and build up from there? I skimed through chapters 4 -7, which cover c programming and more interfacing examples,but they looked kind of advanced.

I kind of hate to bash the book because I'm sure for the right people it does have some good information. However, the books description says... " it would be helpful if the student is familar with personal computers, binary and hex numbers, and had introductory digital devices(I'll admit I'm weak on digital)." The description I think leads you to think the book is going to cover the 8051, assembler(explains very little)& C and interfacing at a level begineers can understand-I didn't find that to be the case at all . Compared to other Prentice-Hall electronics books I've read by Floyd and by Tocci, this book doesn't stack up at all. I learned more from 8052.com and from hkrmicro.com.

Rating: 1
Summary: Only for beginners
Comment: This book is good for beginners:
- Description of 8051 processor
- Hardwareinterfacing an description
- Examples in C and ASM
- Assembler instructions from Intel (same as in 8051.pdf)

I was searching of bulding a Multitasking 51 system but in this book was nothing written.

Rating: 5
Summary: Cut to the core of 8051
Comment: I have been working with microcontroller for quite some time. This book does not waste pages to get to the heart of 8051. I like that. The book focused more on software part of 8051. This book can make you a very good embedded programmer, but not a good embedded controller hardware designer. But this book is definitely the best thing that happened to people who want to become familiar with microcontroller. For the price and the material it covers, I can not find a better book.

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