This book could also be entitled Microprocessor Experiments Using the Intel SDK-85. For each experiment, the authors provide an overview of the subject, a discussion of the components employed, connection diagrams with explanations, and assembly language programs supplemented with flowcharts and comments.
Chapter 1 overviews the components and the programming of the SDK-85, a single board system design kit based on the Intel 8085 8-bit microprocessor. Chapter 2 provides brief guidelines on how to perform the experiments, including a description of connections and coding. Each of the remaining chapters is dedicated to a project and includes problems involving additional experiments or the extension of the ones presented. The projects (some of which involve multiple experiments) are
Design of a Slot Machine
Design of a Tone Generator
KB-SDK85-Printer Interface Using Parallel Technique
Protocol-based Communication Between Two Terminals Using Serial Interface
Cyclic Redundancy Check Applied in Data Transmission
Design of Transfer-Functions Using Analog Interface
Design of a Stepping Motor Controller
Microprocessor-based Voice Synthesis Using a Voice Processor
Microprocessor-based Voice Synthesis Using a Phoneme Synthesizer
Using an Arithmetic Processor in Microprocessor Systems: Polling Technique
Using an Arithmetic Processor in Microprocessor Systems: Interrupt Technique
Microprocessor-controlled Robot Arm
Appendices at the end of the book provide details on the hardware design and the commands of the SDK-85, the instruction set of the 8080/8085, and the characteristics of the components used in the experiments. The book contains some typographical and other errors (for example, in figure 3.2, in figure 6.4, and in the mapping of a bit pattern into a polynomial on page 156) and uses odd-sounding expressions at times. It could be further improved by presenting an overview of the basics of microprocessors and the 8085 in the first chapter, and by redrawing rather than reprinting some of the block diagrams and schematics.
Overall, I feel that the book can be valuable to instructors designing microcomputer laboratory experiments. (According to the authors, all the experiments are fully tested.) In addition, instructors may find this book useful as a companion text to laboratory experiments for their students.
