3.5 Recommended books/magazines
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3.5 Recommended books/magazines
Books:
"AT Bus Design", By Ed Solari, Published by Annabooks ISBN 0-929392-08-6
"The Art of Digital Design" by Prosser & Winkel ISBN 0-13-046607-7
"The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed." by Horowitz and Hill. ISBN 0-521-37095-7 (Also, "Student Manual for The Art of Electronics," by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz ISBN 0-521-37709-9)
"A Beginner's Guide to Computers and Microprocessors - with projects" by Charles K. Adams, from TAB books
"The Best of Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" ISBN 0-07-011025-5
"Best of Interface Age, Volume 1: Software in BASIC" Carl D. Warren (ed.), dilithium Press, 1979, ISBN 0-918398-36-3
"Bit Slice Microprocessor Design" by Mick and Brick ISBN 0-07-041781-4
"Bit Slice Design:Controllers and ALU's" by Donnamaie E. White ISBN 0-8240-7103-4
"The Book of SCSI" by Peter M. Ridge ISBN# 1-886411-02-6
"Build Your Own Low-Cost Data Acquisition and Display Devices" by Jeffrey H. Johnson ISBN 0-8306-4348-6
"Build you own Universal Computer Interface" Covers a lot about serial interfacing and designing circuitry. ISBN #: 0-8306-3122-4
"Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application Notes" by Steve Ciarcia. ISBN 0-07-010962-1.
"The Compact Disc Handbook" (second edition) By Ken C. Pohlmann. ISBN 0-89579-301-6
"Computer Architecture, a Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy and Patterson
"Computer Structures: Readings and Examples" by Bell and Newell
"Controlling the world with your parallel port" Jamco Electronics
"Controlling the World with your PC" by Paul Bergsman
"Design of oscillator and other harmonic oscillators " by Benjamin Parzen (Published by John Wiley and Sons) ISBN 0-471-08819-6
"The Design and Drafting of printed circuits," Darryl Lindsey; Bishop Graphics, Inc.
"Designing Cards and Drivers for Macintosh II and Macintosh SE" ISBN 0-201-19256-X.
"Designing with Programmable Array Logic", Tech. Staff of Monolithic Memories, McGraw-Hill, 1981
"Design with Microcontrollers", John B. Peatman
"Digital Design with Standard MSI and LSI, 2nd ed." by T. R. Blakeslee.
"Digital Design Principles and Practices" by John F. Wakerly Published by Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-212838
"Electronic Drafting and Printed Circuit Board Design," 2nd ed., by James M. Kirkpatrick; Delmar Publishers
"Electronic Prototype Construction," Kasten, Stephen D. Originally published by Howard W. Sams, Inc.
"Handbook of software and hardware interfacing for IBM PCs", By Jeffrey P. Royer, Published by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-381849-7
"High Frequency Switching Power Suplies:Theory and Design" by George Chryssis.
"High-Speed Digital Design, a Handbook of Black Magic" by Johnson and Graham, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993
"How to Design, Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System" Robert P. Haviland, 1979, TAB Books, ISBN 0-8306-9810-8 (0-8306-1111-8 paperback)
"How to program the Z80" by Rodnay Zaks
"The IBM Personal Computer, from the Inside Out" by Sargent and Shoemaker (published by Addison-Wesley) provides a lot of information about interfacing an IBM type PC to various things. ISBN 0-201-06918-0
"The Indispensable PC Hardware Book".
"Inside the EISA Computers", By Tony Dowden
"Interface your microcomputer to virtually anything" by Joseph A. Carr ISBN 0-8306-0890-7 ISBN 0-8306-1890-2 (paperback)
"Interfacing to the IBM PC" by Lewis C. Eggebrecht. Signals, timing diagrams, example circuits, etc. ISBN 0-672-22722-3
"Interfacing to the PowerPC Microprocessor" Ron Rahmel and Don Rahmel, SAMS Publishing
"ISA & EISA: Theory and Operation" by Edward Solari (great info and timing of the bus hardware -- essential for HW design)
"Making Printed Circuit Boards" by Jan Axelson, Tab Books, 1993 ISBN 0-8306-3950-0 (hard) 0-8306-3951-9 (paper)
"Mastering Serial Communications" by Peter W. Gofton ISBN 0-7821-1202-1
"The Microcomputer Builder's Bible" by Chris Johnston, Tab Books, 1982 (hard back cover)
"Microcontrolers. Architecture, Implementation, & Programming" by Kenneth Hintz and Daniel Tabak ISBN 0-07-028977-8
"The Microcontroller Idea Book" Jan Axelson
"Microelectronic Circuits" by Sedra and Smith
"Microprogramming" by Husson
"Microprocessor Based Design" by Michael Slater, Prentice Hall, 1989
"Microprocessor Logic Design, The Flow Chart Method" by Nick Tredennick
"Microprocessor Systems Design" (68000 Hardware, Software, and Interfacing) by Alan Clements. ISBN 0-87150-095-7
"Musical Applications of Microprocessors" by Hal Chamberlin ISBN 0-8104-5753-9
"Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic systems" Ott, Henry W. ISBN 0-471-65726-3
"The PC Handbook" available from Annabooks
"PC Programmer's Handbook" by Sanchez and Canton (code examples of programming the DMA chip)
"PCI, Hardware and Software" Edward Solari,George Wilson ISBN 0-929392-28-0
"The PCI Handbook," Brian Dipert ISBN 0-929392-25-6 - "PCMCIA System Architechure" Don Anderson and Tom Shanley
"The PowerPC Architecture" IBM book number SR28-5124-00
"Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT and AT", By Robert Jourdain, Brady Book, ISBN 0-89303-787-7 info on timer, keyboard, video, disk, parallel and serial port hardware resources, and software interfacing.
"PS/2 and PC BIOS Interface Technical Reference: Second Edition"
"Single- and Multiple-Chip Microcomputer Interfacing" G.J. Lipovski ISBN 0-13-810557-X (Prentice-Hall Edition) ISBN 0-13-810573-1 (Motorola Edition)
"The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface" by Friedhelm Schmidt. ISBN 0-201-42284-0
"Stack Computers, the new wave" by Philip J. Koopman Jr. Published by John Wiley (Halstead Press) ISBN 0-470-21467-8
"TTL Cookbook" written by Don Lancaster
"The XT-AT Handbook" by Choisser and Foster
"Z-80 Microcomputer Design Projects" by William Barden Jr. ISBN 0-672-21682-5, published by Howard W. Sams & Co. Inc
"The Z80 Microcomputer Handbook" William Barden, Jr,
"The 8088 Project Book" by Robert Grossblatt. 1989 Tab Books - ISBN 0-8306-0271-1
Technical Book Vendors:
Annabooks: http://www.annabooks.com
PROMPT Publications, a division of Howard W. Sams & Company. Free catalog (800) 428-7267 or e-mail (including a shipping address) to cdrake@in.net.
Tab/McGraw-Hill(1-800-822-8158)
Magazines:
The Computer Applications Journal (Circuit Cellar Ink) PO Box 7694, Riverton, NJ 08077-8784 (609) 786-0409 http://www.circellar.com
The Computer Journal (916) 722-4970 1-800-424-8825 FAX: 916-722-7480 BBS: 916-722-5799 P.O. Box 3900, Citrus Heights, CA 95611-3900 tcj@psyber.com http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/
Computer Design (508) 692-0700 One Technology Park Drive, P.O. Box 990, Westford, MA 01886
Dr. Dobbs Journal (415) 358-9500 411 Borel Ave., San Mateo, CA 94402 ftp site - ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj www site - http://www.ddj.com BBS - 415-358-8857
EE Times (516) 562-5000 600 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030 Electronics design http://www.ednmag.com/
Electronic Engineering Times (516) 293-3000 500-B Bi-County Boulevard, Farmingdale, NY 11735
ELECTRONICS AUSTRALIA
Electronics Now (computer/electonics/hobbyists magazine) 800-999-7139 Reader Service Dept PO Box 5192 Pittsfield MA 01203-9989
Electronique Pratique http://www.eprat.com
Elektor Electronics (603) 924-6371, 924-6526 Old Colony Sound Lab, P.O. Box 243, Peterborough, NH 03458 World Wide Subscription Service Ltd Unit 4, Gibbs Reed Farm, Pashley Road, Ticehurst TN5 7HE, England http://www.elektor.ac-net.de
Everyday With Practical Electronics +44 1202 881749 EPE Subscrptions Department, Wimborne Publishing Ltd. Allen House, East Borough, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 1PF http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk Editorial E-mail: editorial@epemag.wimborne.co.uk
Historically Brewed Historical Computer Society, 10928 Ted Williams Place El Paso, TX 79934
Microcomputer Journal (formerly Computer Craft) 76 N. Broadway, Hicksville, NY 11801
Nuts and Volts 1-800-783-4624, 909-371-8497 fax 909-371-3052
Popular Electronics (800) 435 - 0715 Subscription Dept, PO Box 338, Mt. Morris, IL 61054-9935
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