Publisher's Synopsis
This book introduces hardware engineers to the software control of micro-processor-based products through the programming language FORTH. It employs a "building-brick" approach in which functions combining hardware and software are designed and tested together. This method leads naturally to a repertoire of reuseable functions, improving software design productivity.;FORTH itself is presented as a machine design kit, making it attractive to those who see computing in terms of building hardware rather than writing statements in an abstract language. A case study shows how FORTH's benefits in interactive testing can be added to the conventional assembly language environment to facilitate development, factory tests and product maintenance. The FORTH-83 language standard and the older FIG-FORTH are compared.
