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comfort, economy, or even reliability. You could implement this sort of feature
with dedicated hardware, but a microprocessor makes the job much easier.

This book will take you step by step through the procedures involved in designing
an embedded control system. Many of the tricks I have learned in my 20 years in
the field will be passed on, as well as some pitfalls to avoid. Along the way, we will
use as an example of a simple embedded control system, a swimming pool pump
timer, to illustrate these concepts.
The book is aimed primarily at students, new graduates who will be moving into
the embedded processor field, and engineers working in another field who want
to switch to embedded microprocessors. It assumes that the reader has a basic
knowledge of software concepts, binary and hexadecimal number systems, and a
basic understanding of digital logic. A review of this material is included in the
appendixes at the end.

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