Chapter 6
Microcontroller Program Development
Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to various microcontroller program development tools. The highly popular program description language (PDL) is described with many examples. In addition, the less commonly used flow chart technique is described, again with several examples. Examples are given to show the advantages and disadvantages of both the PDL and the flow chart methods.
Keywords
Microcontroller program development tools
Program description language (PDL)
Flow charts
Representing various program control structures using the PDL language and flow charts
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