I'm making my way through the 2nd edition now. As a software guy who occasionally writes close-to-the-metal firmware, I wish I'd read the book a lot earlier.
It's fun to wire up a few transistors and other components and see them behave the way your calculations said they would.
It's also fun to be talking to hardware engineers about firmware, and then drop into a discussion about the circuit at hand. Sometimes it makes their eyes bug out. :-) Sometimes you can even save money by suggesting a different approach that software can make better use of.
It's fun to wire up a few transistors and other components and see them behave the way your calculations said they would.
It's also fun to be talking to hardware engineers about firmware, and then drop into a discussion about the circuit at hand. Sometimes it makes their eyes bug out. :-) Sometimes you can even save money by suggesting a different approach that software can make better use of.