Sophisticated networking and communications capabilities that were previously the sole domain of mainframes, PCs, and workstations are now becoming mandatory in the realm of smaller embedded microcontrollers. However, documentation, standards, and design information are scattered among many sources and are difficult to find.

In Networking and Internetworking with Microcontrollers, popular columnist and embedded designer Fred Eady is your guide and adviser. He presents all the necessary design background and details and shows you how to use today's affordable microcontrollers for powerful communications and networking applications such as local area networks and embedded internet. Using working code examples and schematics, Eady steers you through the basics using two popular microcontroller families, PIC and Atmel.

Included are a wealth of detailed design examples for:

• RS-232 firmware and hardware
• Microcontroller USARTs
• The I2C bus
• Ethernet implementation
• Embedded internet implementation
• Wireless links

Sample source code is provided and thoroughly explained for all the application examples. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the example code as well as a searchable electronic book version of the text. You could spend days or even weeks gathering all the information that Eady has assembled in this one indispensable reference.

512 pages; softcover; CD-ROM included

Contents

• 1 The Essence of Microcontroller Networking - RS-232
• 2 Implementing RS-232 with a Microcontroller
• 3 Writing RS-232 Microcontroller Routines in BASIC
• 4 Building Some RS-232 Communications Hardware
• 5 Using Microcontroller USARTs
• 6 I2C - The Other Serial Protocol
• 7 Ethernet
• 8 Writing the CS8900A-CQ Firmware
• 9 PINGing the Easy Ethernet CS8900A
• 10 UDP and the Easy Ethernet CS8900A
• 11 TCP and the Easy Ethernet CS8900A
• 12 Let's Do It Again
• 13 Putting the Easy Ethernet AVR Online
• 14 Finale