ST ST7 - 1 Introduction; Who Is this Book Written for; About the Authors; How Is this Book Organized

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1 - Introduction
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 WHO IS THIS BOOK WRITTEN FOR?
This book is a technical guide for ST7 users and may be approached in different ways:
 For students and anyone unfamiliar with microprocessors, but with some experience of logic
circuits; they should start by reading Chapters 1 through 3.
 For trained engineers wanting to get specific knowledge about the ST7 and microcontroller
programming in C language; they may skip Chapters 1 through 3 and go straight to Chapter
4.
 For designers already familiar with the ST7, needing more details about C-language
programming and how to use the ST7 internal peripherals; the application descriptions in
Chapters 5 and 8 through 10 are of special interest for them.
1.2 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jean-Luc Gregoriades teaches automated systems and industrial computer science at the
Electrical Engineering department of the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Jean-Marc Delaplace is an electronics and software engineer at Gilson S.A., a laboratory au-
tomation instrument maker.
As a team, they have already written books on the ST6 (published at Dunod Editions) and the
ST9 (published by STMicroelectronics).
1.3 HOW IS THIS BOOK ORGANIZED?
This book contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: How does a typical microcontroller work internally and how to use it.
Chapter 3: Programming a microcontroller.
Chapter 4: Architecture of the ST7 core.
Chapter 5: The peripherals.
Chapter 6: The STMicroelectronics programming tools.
Chapter 7: The Debugger and the PROM programmer through a pedagogic application using
a ST72251.
Chapter 8: The C language and the C compiler.
Chapter 9: Application of the ST72251: a carrier-current system for domestic remote control.
Chapter 10: Application of the ST72311: a sailing computer.