Designing Mobile Robot Interfaces with 16-Bit Microchip Microcontrollers
暫譯: 使用16位Microchip微控制器設計移動機器人介面

本教科書提供學期長度的嵌入式程式設計基礎知識，以開發與機器人相關的專案。作者避免了傳統的理論教學方法，專注於強調實用且有趣的專案。每個專案的細節都進行了解釋，包括整體系統架構、各個外圍設備的工作原理、整合每個外圍設備到系統的程式開發、如何配置處理器、功能檢查、作業系統，甚至為某些沒有數位介面的感測器開發前端電子設備。

Ahmet Bindal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles CA. His doctoral research was the material characterization of HEMT GaAs transistors. During his graduate studies, he was a research associate and a technical consultant for Hughes Aircraft Co. In 1988, he joined the technical staff of IBM Research and Development Center in Fishkill, NY where he worked as a device design and characterization engineer. He developed asymmetrical MOS transistors and ultra thin Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technologies for IBM. In 1993, he transferred to IBM at Rochester, MN, as a senior circuit design engineer to work on the floating-point unit of AS-400 main frame processor. He continued his circuit design career at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, where he designed 16-bit packed multipliers and adders for the MMX unit in Pentium II processors. In 1996, he joined Philips Semiconductors in Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the designs of instruction/data caches and various SRAM modules for the Trimedia processor. His involvement with VLSI architecture also started in Philips Semiconductors and led to the design of the Video-Out unit for the same processor. In 1998, he joined Cadence Design Systems as a VLSI architect and directed a team of engineers to design a self-timed asynchronous processor. After approximately 20 years of industry work, he joined the Computer Engineering faculty at San Jose State University in 2002. His current research interests range from nano-scale electron devices to robotics. Dr. Bindal has over 30 scientific journal and conference publications and 10 invention disclosures with IBM. He currently holds three U.S. patents with IBM and one with Intel Corporation. On the light side of things, Dr. Bindal is a model aircraft builder, violin maker, painter and an avid windsurfer for more than 30 years.

Ahmet Bindal 於加州大學洛杉磯分校獲得電機工程碩士及博士學位。他的博士研究專注於 HEMT GaAs 晶體管的材料特性。在研究生期間，他曾擔任休斯飛機公司（Hughes Aircraft Co.）的研究助理和技術顧問。1988 年，他加入了位於紐約 Fishkill 的 IBM 研究與開發中心，擔任設備設計與特性工程師。他為 IBM 開發了非對稱 MOS 晶體管和超薄矽絕緣體（Silicon-On-Insulator, SOI）技術。1993 年，他轉至位於明尼蘇達州羅徹斯特的 IBM，擔任高級電路設計工程師，負責 AS-400 主機處理器的浮點單元設計。他在加州聖克拉拉的英特爾公司（Intel Corporation）繼續他的電路設計生涯，為 Pentium II 處理器的 MMX 單元設計了 16 位元打包乘法器和加法器。1996 年，他加入位於加州桑尼維爾的飛利浦半導體（Philips Semiconductors），參與 Trimedia 處理器的指令/數據快取和各種 SRAM 模組的設計。他在飛利浦半導體的 VLSI 架構工作也開始了，並設計了同一處理器的視頻輸出單元。1998 年，他加入 Cadence Design Systems 擔任 VLSI 架構師，並指導一組工程師設計自定時非同步處理器。經過約 20 年的產業工作，他於 2002 年加入聖荷西州立大學的計算機工程系。其目前的研究興趣涵蓋從納米級電子設備到機器人技術。Bindal 博士擁有超過 30 篇科學期刊和會議的出版物，以及 10 項與 IBM 的發明披露。他目前持有三項與 IBM 的美國專利和一項與英特爾公司的專利。在輕鬆的方面，Bindal 博士是一位模型飛機製作者、小提琴製作師、畫家，並且熱愛風帆衝浪超過 30 年。