Publisher's Synopsis
Providing a systems-level understanding of the 80x86 microcomputer and its hardware and software, this text gives equal emphasis to both assembly language software and microcomputer circuit design. There are four new chapters in the Second Edition: Assembly Language Program Development and the Microsoft MASM Macroassembler; PC Bus Interfacing, Circuit Construction, Testing, and Troubleshooting; The 80386, 80486, and the Pentium TM..Processor Families - Software Architecture; and The 80386, 80486, and Pentium Processor Families - Hardware Architecture. Both the assembly language programming section and the microcomputer interface circuits section have been significantly enhanced.