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'''Chapter 3: Software'''
'''Chapter 3: Software'''
* The last line of typeset code should begin <code>LATFbits.LATF0</code>, not <code>LATA5LATFbits.LATF0</code>.
* page 43: The last line of typeset code should begin <code>LATFbits.LATF0</code>, not <code>LATA5LATFbits.LATF0</code>.
* page 47: The description of bit fields near the bottom of the page is misleading. Each named set of bits is a bit field. The <code>struct</code>s are collections of bit fields.


'''Chapter 21: Sensors'''
'''Chapter 21: Sensors'''
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'''Appendix A: A Crash Course in C'''
'''Appendix A: A Crash Course in C'''
* page 523: <code>unit8_t</code> should be <code>uint8_t</code>
* page 523: <code>unit8_t</code> should be <code>uint8_t</code>
* page 564: After the gray box with <code>int sscanf...</code>, the next line should say "Instead of scanning from the keyboard, <code>sscanf</code> ..."


'''Appendix B: Circuits Review'''
'''Appendix B: Circuits Review'''

Revision as of 08:31, 9 April 2016

Below are errata for the book "Embedded Computing and Mechatronics with the PIC32 Microcontroller," Kevin M. Lynch, Nicholas Marchuk, and Matthew L. Elwin, Newnes/Elsevier 2015. For succinctness, typos are other minor errors that cannot lead to confusion are not reported here.


Throughout the book

  • Due to fixed-width fonts chosen for typesetting code, sometimes two consecutive underscores _ _ appear as a single long line, and sometimes two consecutive minus signs -- appear as a single long line. For example, some code listings using the _ _ ISR macro appear to have a single long line before the ISR.

Chapter 3: Software

  • page 43: The last line of typeset code should begin LATFbits.LATF0, not LATA5LATFbits.LATF0.
  • page 47: The description of bit fields near the bottom of the page is misleading. Each named set of bits is a bit field. The structs are collections of bit fields.

Chapter 21: Sensors

  • The Greek letter psi in the summation block of Figure 21.22 (bottom) should be an uppercase sigma.

Chapter 22: Digital Signal Processing

  • page 354, second-to-last sentence: should say "ratio G of their amplitudes"

Appendix A: A Crash Course in C

  • page 523: unit8_t should be uint8_t
  • page 564: After the gray box with int sscanf..., the next line should say "Instead of scanning from the keyboard, sscanf ..."

Appendix B: Circuits Review

  • page 595: In the first sentence of "Application: Switch debouncing", it should read "clean falling edge from V to GND," not "clean falling edge from GND to V."
  • page 602: The sentence after the first set of bullets should say "When , the power dissipated by the transistor is ."