Description: Over 100 illustrations and 25 working assembly language programs introduce the novice to both CPU hardware and professional software development methods using the ARM and NEON processors within the Raspberry Pi. Background material on subjects like binary, two's complement, and hexadecimal appear in 14 appendices.
Brief description: Robert Dunne has over 40 years of computer experience ranging from developing custom hardware interfaces on supercomputers to teaching technology courses in middle-school gifted-education programs. Starting out with degrees in physics and computer science, he was on staff at a national laboratory and a major engineering firm for ten years before becoming an entrepreneur in the development of embedded systems. Before working with the ARM architecture and Raspberry Pi, he had written well over 100,000 lines of assembler code developing systems and applications on nine unique CPU architectures encompassing mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. During the past ten years, he has taught three undergraduate courses per semester in digital electronics and embedded systems and is notorious for getting his students working on a lab project within the first 60 seconds of the very first class meeting.