Programming the Propeller with Spin: A Beginner's Guide to Parallel Processing walks you through the essential skills you need to build and control devices using the Propeller chip and its parallel processing environment. Find out how to use each of the identical 32-bit processors, known as cogs, and make the eight cogs effectively interact with each other. The book covers Propeller hardware and software setup, memory, and the Spin language.

Step-by-step projects give you hands-on experience as you learn how to:

Use Propeller I/O techniques with extensive Spin code examples
Display numbers with seven segment displays
Create accurate, controlled pulse sequences
Add a 16 character by two line LCO display
Control R/C hobby servos
Use motor amplifiers to control small motors
Run a bipolar stepper motor
Build a gravity sensor-based auto-leveling table
Run DC motors with incremental encoders
Run small AC motors
You'll also find hundreds of lines of ready-to-run documented Spin code. Downloads available at www.mhprofessional.com/computingdownload

Chapters:

Chapter 1. A General Introduction to the Propeller Chip
Chapter 2. The Propeller Chip. An Overall Description
Chapter 3. The Hardware Setup
Chapter 4. Software Setup: The Propeller "Tool" Environment
Chapter 5. The Various Propeller Memories
Chapter 6. The How and Why of Shared Memory
Chapter 7. Understanding One Cog
Chapter 8. The Eight Cogs
Chapter 9. Special Terms and Ideas
Chapter 10. The Spin Language
Chapter 11. Tasks Suited to Parallel Processing
Chapter 12. General Discussion of Input/Output
Chapter 13. Binary Pulsing
Chapter 14. Setting Up a 16-Character-by-2-Line Liquid Crystal Display
Chapter 15. Binary Input and Output: Reading a Switch and Turning on an LED if Switch is Closed
Chapter 16. Reading a Potentiometer: Creating an Input We Can Vary in Real Time
Chapter 17. Creating and Reading Frequencies
Chapter 18. Reading and Creating Pulses
Chapter 19. Seven Segment Displays: Displaying Numbers with Seven-Segment LED Displays
Chapter 20. The Metronomes
Chapter 21. Understanding a 16-Character-by-2-Line LCD Display
Chapter 22. Running Motors: A Preliminary Discussion
Chapter 23. Motor Amplifiers for Small Motors
Chapter 24. Motor Amplifiers for Small Motors
Chapter 25. Controlling a Small DC Motor
Chapter 26. Running a Stepper Motor: Bipolar, Four-Wire Motors
Chapter 27. Gravity Sensor Based Auto-Leveling Table
Chapter 28. Running DC Motors with Attached Incremental Encoders
Chapter 29. Running Small AC Motors: Controlling Inductive Loads

Key Specifications:

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071716661 / 9780071716666
Dimensions: 7.3 x .74 x 6 in
Paperback / 368 pp. / Black & White
 

Downloads & Resources:
Documented Spin Code (Off Site)