HCS08 Unleashed

[fabio]

Hello folks!

My book is finally ready and I would like to share the news with you. The final title is: "HCS08 Unleashed: Designer's Guide to the HCS08 Microcontrollers".

It is a mix of a reference book and a hands-on course. Through the 412 pages, many interesting topics are covered, such as: the HCS08 CPU architecture, programmer's model, peripherals,etc.

The first chapters cover the basics of the architecture, the Codewarrior tool and a quick C review (yes, the book is focused on C development).

There are over 70 examples and listings (including some small applications in the last chapter). I hope you like it. The table of contents and the example files can be downloaded at: www.sctec.com.br/hcs08 .

I hope the book is available for purchase in about two weeks (some issues were detected in the proof copy and I had to start the publishing process from the beginning) through Booksurge ( www.booksurge.com ) and later through Amazon ( www.amazon.com ). As soon as the book is available, I'll let you know (and I would love to hear any comments!).

Best regards,

[fanbanlo]

Which dev kit should I buy along with this book to follow the example? thanks.

[fabio]

Most examples were designed to run on the DEMO9S08QG8, but there is also examples for the DEMOQE board, DEMO9S08AW60E, M68DEMO908GB60 and DEMO9S08LC60.

Best regards,

[fanbanlo]

DEMO9S08QG8 is "No Longer Manufactured" : http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=DEMO9S08QG8&tab=Buy_Parametric_Tab&cl...

Is DEMO9S08QG8E ok? Or which one should I purchase?  Thank you.

[fabio]

I think it is basically the same kit.

Best regards,

[mimmo69]

Thank you very much!!!

I continue to have problems with your web site, but may be it is a problem to my connection.

Is there another place where I can find the material of the book?

Best regards,

mimmo

[fabio]

Hi Mimmo,

Unfortunatelly, there is no other place where you can download the files. You can email me and I will send any files you need.

f a b i o [at] s c t e c [dot] c o m [dot] b r

Best regards,

[jagged]

Hello Fabio,

I purchased your book a while ago and it is very good & useful.

Thanks for putting the time in to providing such excellent content into one great book.

Now I would very much like to make use of the online content & files but have encountered some problems.

Like mimmo, I am having problems accessing the download files from your site: www.sctec.com.br/hcs08.

Here is the response I am seeing:

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Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Michael

[fabio]

Hi Jagged,

The website is working  again!

Besg regards and a great 2010!

[jagged]

Fabio,

I just read your response to my site access problem. Thank you so much for making your site accessible! - I have now downloaded the relevant chapter files that I was planning to run on my demo9s08qg8 module.

This extra material provides very useful support for the actual book!

Best regards to you as well.

Michael

[admin]

I bought your book fabio. Arrived yesterday but so far I haven't had a chance to do anything but flip thru the pages. So far, it looks good and appears to have everything about the S08 all together in one place.

Nice work. 

[mimmo69]

Hi Fabio.

Thanks a lot for your book!!! It's a good way to learn HCS08 uC.

I have a problem.

I have problem with connection to your site: www.sctec.com.br/hcs08

I need to download the file: hcs08.h.

Can you help me?

Best regards,

mimmo

[fabio]

Hi Mimmo,

The webpage is working ok for me. What kind of problem are you experiencing?

The attached file include the examples for chapter 13, all of them also include the file you need.

 

Best regards,

Message Edited by fabio on 2009-11-09 10:23 AM

Chapter13.zip

Message Edited by t.dowe on 2009-11-09 10:12 AM

[Denn]

Hello Fabio,

Congratulations for your new book on HCS08 controllers.Hope this would be a good reference for the folks working on them.

Regards,

Denn

Message Edited by Denn*** on 2008-03-07 06:18 AM

[J2MEJediMaster]

Congratulations, fabio! I understand what you went through...I published a book on Power Macintosh Programming on how to use the (then new) PowerPC back in 1994. It was a lot of work, talking about the microarchitecture, and then coming up with some code examples that were simple enough to be instructive, yet sophisticated enough to do something practical.  Again, great job. I know you're glad that the writing part is over. I hope it becomes a bestseller, or at least the royalty checks are fabulous.

---Tom


Message Edited by J2MEJediMaster on 2008-03-11 12:23 PM

[fabio]

Hi Denn and Tom,

Thank you for your kindly words. I am very anxious to see the real book. I hope it be useful for everybody.

Tom:

Wow, PowerPC, very cool. Back 1994 ? Even more cool. I have read some texts about the architecture (mostly the PPC604), but I must admit it is light years from me. Today, the most advanced machines I use to program are ARMs (ARM7 and Cortex-M3).

Best regards and thanks again!

[fabio]

The book is available at Amazon.com:

Best regards,


Message Edited by fabio on 2008-03-28 02:46 PM

[fabio]

Hello everybody!

There is an errata document for some errors and smaller issues found in the book.

Right now I would like to thank CompilerGuru for pointing out most of them.

I am looking forward to find new errors (and to hear of them) so that the book gets improved more and more.

The errata can be found in the book page at www.sctec.com.br/hcs08

Thank you all!