Ebook: Interfacing with C++: Programming Real-World Applications

This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things - not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices through the use of a specially-developed interface circuit board included with the book. The book, interface board and accompanying software incorporate simple and easy-to-understand projects such as digital-to-analog conversion, analog to digital conversion, DC and Stepper motor control, temperature and voltage measurement, PC-based timing, or basic data acquisition. The audience of this innovative and rewarding approach to learn interfacing real-world devices to a computer via C++ are undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, practicing engineers/scientists, technical workers, and hobbyists. The types of courses the book complements include control engineering, electronics, computing, and mechatronics.

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This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things - not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices through the use of a specially-developed interface circuit board included with the book. The book, interface board and accompanying software incorporate simple and easy-to-understand projects such as digital-to-analog conversion, analog to digital conversion, DC and Stepper motor control, temperature and voltage measurement, PC-based timing, or basic data acquisition. The audience of this innovative and rewarding approach to learn interfacing real-world devices to a computer via C++ are undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, practicing engineers/scientists, technical workers, and hobbyists. The types of courses the book complements include control engineering, electronics, computing, and mechatronics.

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This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things - not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices through the use of a specially-developed interface circuit board included with the book. The book, interface board and accompanying software incorporate simple and easy-to-understand projects such as digital-to-analog conversion, analog to digital conversion, DC and Stepper motor control, temperature and voltage measurement, PC-based timing, or basic data acquisition. The audience of this innovative and rewarding approach to learn interfacing real-world devices to a computer via C++ are undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, practicing engineers/scientists, technical workers, and hobbyists. The types of courses the book complements include control engineering, electronics, computing, and mechatronics.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Getting Started....Pages 1-22
Parallel Port Basics and Interfacing....Pages 23-33
Testing the Parallel Port....Pages 35-56
The Object-Oriented Approach....Pages 57-73
Object-Oriented Programming....Pages 75-103
Digital-to-Analog Conversion....Pages 105-146
Driving LEDs....Pages 147-195
Driving Motors - DC & Stepper....Pages 197-271
Program Development Techniques....Pages 273-302
Voltage and Temperature Measurement....Pages 303-329
Analog-to-Digital Conversion....Pages 331-362
Data Acquisition with Operator Overloading....Pages 363-397
The PC Timer....Pages 399-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-489

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This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things - not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices through the use of a specially-developed interface circuit board included with the book. The book, interface board and accompanying software incorporate simple and easy-to-understand projects such as digital-to-analog conversion, analog to digital conversion, DC and Stepper motor control, temperature and voltage measurement, PC-based timing, or basic data acquisition. The audience of this innovative and rewarding approach to learn interfacing real-world devices to a computer via C++ are undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and science, practicing engineers/scientists, technical workers, and hobbyists. The types of courses the book complements include control engineering, electronics, computing, and mechatronics.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Getting Started....Pages 1-22
Parallel Port Basics and Interfacing....Pages 23-33
Testing the Parallel Port....Pages 35-56
The Object-Oriented Approach....Pages 57-73
Object-Oriented Programming....Pages 75-103
Digital-to-Analog Conversion....Pages 105-146
Driving LEDs....Pages 147-195
Driving Motors - DC & Stepper....Pages 197-271
Program Development Techniques....Pages 273-302
Voltage and Temperature Measurement....Pages 303-329
Analog-to-Digital Conversion....Pages 331-362
Data Acquisition with Operator Overloading....Pages 363-397
The PC Timer....Pages 399-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-489
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