This book is directed towards students of electrical engineering and computer engineering at the senior level and toward practicing engineers. The text develops design techniques for using microcontrollers (i.e., single-chip microcomputers). It emphasizeTable of Contents: 1. A PIC Microcontroller Framework 2. CPU Architecture and Instruction Set 3. MPASM Assember and Its Use 4. LoopTime Subroutine, Timer2 and Interrupts 5. Interrupt Timing and Program Size Considerations 6. External Interrupts and Timers