Microcomputer Circuits and Processes

INDEX
This Index will direct you to explanations
of the terms you may look up.
Address, 12
Address bus, 13
Address Latch Enable (ALE), 20
Analogue-to-digital conversion (A-to-D),
59
Bits, 11
Bytes, 14
Bubble memory, 47
Bus, 8 .
Bus contention, 9
Data bus, 13
Decoder and decoding, 15
Digital-to-analogue conversion (D-to-A),
54
Digitizing video pictures, 68
Direct Memory Access (DMA), 68
Dynamic memory, 47
Electrically Eraseable Programmable
Read Only Memory (E 2 pROM), 44
Enable and enabling, 9
Eraseable Programmable Read Only
Memory (EPROM), 44
Execute cycles, 33
Fetch cycles, 33
Flash conversion, 65
Input and output, 22, 70
Instruction register, 26
Keyboard interface, 53
Kilobyte (IK), 14
Latch and latching, 20
Linear ramp A-to-D convertor, 59
Large-scale integration (LSI), 5
Memory, 11, 44
Memory-mapped input and output, 22
M/I0 signal, 23
Mnemonics, 29
Modem, 68
Medium-scale integration (MSI), 5
Multiplexing, 19
Op-code,29
Output and input, 22, 70
Program counter, 26, 28
Programmable Read Only Memory
(PROM),44
Random Access Memory (RAM), 45
Read (RD) signal, 13
Registers, 26
Read Only Memory (ROM), 44
Serial communication, 67
Seven-segment displays, 50
Successive approximation A-to-D, 62
Timing, 16
Timing diagrams:
introduction, 16; output, 42
Very large-scale integration (VLSI), 5
Write (WR) signal, 13
76