Programming the Propeller with Spin: A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing (Tab Electronics)

Note, I'm only halfway through, but I am reading it pretty closely. This book really uses redundancy (let's call it a teaching mechanism), but this gets irritating very quickly. By about the 7th chapter, we have been told it seems like a dozen times that the Propeller's eight cogs are absolutly identical. Halfway through the book, we are still looking at the same simple LED blink example listed over and over, with the same explanation about PUB and PRI methods. The term Object is defined several times, and so on. Also, there is some poor proofreading. In a (repeated) schematic, an LED "points" the wrong way (or is connected to the wrong power rail). One reused example code wherein a couple of code line changes are made still has the comments against them for the previous example. A chapter supposedly dealing with thouroughly understand a single gog concludes mysteriously with a multi-cog example. A photo is referenced as a schematic, and vice versa. But, if you can get past the irritations, it's not too bad. I have gained some insight, and expect the hardware interfacing chapters to be better. Parallel Processing With the Propeller--Made Easy!'This book should find a place on any Propellerhead's bookshelf, between Parallax's Propeller Manual and its Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller volumes.'Make: 24 Programming the Propeller with Spin: A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing walks you through the essential skills you need to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment. Find out how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language. Step-by-step projects give you hands-on experience as you learn how to: Use Propeller I/O techniques with extensive Spin code examples Display numbers with seven segment displays Create accurate, controlled pulse sequences Add a 16 character by two line LCO display Control R/C hobby servos Use motor amplifiers to control small motors Run a bipolar stepper motor Build a gravity sensor-based auto-leveling table Run DC motors with incremental encoders Run small AC motors You'll also find hundreds of lines of ready-to-run documented Spin code as well as PDFs of all the schematics on McGraw-Hill's website: Downloads available at www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload'This book should find a place on any Propellerhead's bookshelf, between Parallax's Propeller Manual and its Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller volumes.'Make: 24

Programming the Propeller with Spin?: A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing walks you through the essential skills you need to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment. Find out how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language. Step-by-step projects give you hands-on experience as you learn how to:

Use Propeller I/O techniques with extensive Spin code examples

Display numbers with seven segment displays

Create accurate, controlled pulse sequences

Add a 16 character by two line LCD display

Control R/C hobby servos

Use motor amplifiers to control small motors

Run a bipolar stepper motor

Build a gravity sensor-based auto-leveling table

Run DC motors with incremental encoders

Run small AC motors

You'll also find hundreds of lines of ready-to-run documented Spin code. Downloads available at mhprofessional.com/computingdownload

"This book should find a place on any Propellerhead's bookshelf, between Parallax's Propeller Manual and its Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller volumes." 24 Programming the Propeller with A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing walks you through the essential skills you need to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment. Find out how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language. Step-by-step projects give you hands-on experience as you learn how You'll also find hundreds of lines of ready-to-run documented Spin code as well as PDFs of all the schematics on McGraw-Hill's Downloads available at (http://www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload) www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload "This book should find a place on any Propellerhead's bookshelf, between Parallax's Propeller Manual and its Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller volumes." 24 This volume presents the skills needed to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment, including how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language. The author includes step-by-step projects and ready-to-run documented Spin code as well as PDFs of all the schematics that show readers how to: use Propeller I/O techniques with extensive Spin code examples; display numbers with seven segment displays; create accurate, controlled pulse sequences; add a 16 character by two line LCO display; control R/C hobby servos; use motor amplifiers to control small motors; run a bipolar stepper motor; build a gravity sensor-based auto-leveling table; run DC motors with incremental encoders; and run small AC motors "Programming the Propeller with Spin: A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing walks you through the essential skills you need to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment. - Find out how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language. - "You'll also find hundreds of lines of ready-to-run documented Spin code. Downloads available at www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload"--Jacket This book introduces microchip programmers to parallel processing—as made affordable to engineering students, technicians, and hobbyists by the new Parallax Propeller chip and the Spin language. Ready-to-run documented Spin code as well as PDFs of all the schematics available at www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload