Acknowledgments

Once more this project would have never been possible if I did not have 110% support from my wife Sara, who understands my passion(s) and constantly encourages me to pursue them. Special thanks go to Steve Bowling and to Garry Champ. Their passion and experience in embedded control application caused them to volunteer for reviewing the technical content of this book. While Garry did not know what he was signing up to, Steve should have known better having been my primary technical resource for the previous book. I owe big thanks also to Patrick Johnson, who enthusiastically supported this book idea from the very beginning and pulled all the stops to make sure that I would be able to work in direct contact with his most advanced design and application teams working on the PIC32 project. Thanks to Joe Triece, “the architect”, for being always available to me and always curious about my experiences and impressions. Thanks to Joe Drzewiecky for assembling such a complex tool suite, always working hard to make MPLAB^© IDE a better tool. Special thanks also go to the entire PIC32 application team headed by Nilesh Rajbharti and a special mention to Adrian Aur, Dennis Lehman, Larry Gass and Chris Smith for addressing quickly all my questions and offering so much help and insight into the inner workings of the microcontroller, the peripherals and its libraries. But I would like to extend my gratitude to all my friends, the colleagues at Microchip Technology and the many embedded control engineers I have been honored to work with over the years. You have so profoundly influenced my work and shaped my experience in the fantastic world of embedded control.

Finally, since the publication of my previous book on Programming 16-bit microcontrollers in C, I have received so much feedback and so many readers have written to me to congratulate but also to point out errors and issues. This has been a very humbling but also rewarding experience and I want to thank you all. I tried to incorporate as many of your suggestions as possible in this new work but I am still looking for your continued support and advice.