Book excerpt: Introduction to Microcontrollers is a comprehensive, introductory text/reference for electrical and computer engineers and students with little experience with a high-level programming language. It systematically teaches the programming of a microcontroller in assembly language, as well as C and C++. This books also covers the principles of good programming practice through top-down design and the use of data structures. It is suitable as an introductory text for a first course on microcomputers that demonstrates what a small computer can do. - Shows how a computer executes instructions; - Shows how a high-level programming language converts to assembler language; - Shows how a microcontroller is interfaced to the outside world; - Hundreds of examples, experiments, "brain-teasers" and motivators; - More than 20 exercises at the end of each chapter