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Most 68HC12 textbooks that have been published were written for the old 68HC12 family, and not for the new HCS12 microcontroller.  There are only 4 new HCS12 textbooks available now. Although all four authors used our DRAGON12 or MiniDRAGON+ board for testing many of their sample programs, these sample programs should work for other HCS12 boards with some add-on boards to duplicate I/O peripherals on our DRAGON12 or MiniDRAGON+ board.

Professor Tom Almy's new HCS12 text book on a CD Designing with Microcontrollers The 68HCS12 at http://www.hcs12text.com/
Professor Almy was one of a very few professors who discovered the value of the DRAGON12 board very early on, and immediately implemented it in his class at Oregon Institution of Technology in January 2003.  Since then, many professors have followed his path and made the DRAGON12 board one of the most popular HCS12 trainers available.  His book was the first complete HCS12 book for the DRAGON12 board ever published and it includes many sample programs that have been fully tested on the DRAGON12 board.  It is very affordable and also comes with his new HCS12 simulator.  Quite a few universities and many individuals have been using this CD textbook.
Professor Almy has been using our DRAGON12 board in his class at Oregon Institute of Technology since Jan. 2003. This book also will be a great choice for our MiniDRAGON+ board as well.

Professor Steve Barrett's new HCS12 book Embedded Systems Design and Applications with the 68HC12 and HCS12 at http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/electrical/faculty/barrett/68hc12/
Professor Barrett was one of a handful of professors who discovered the value of the MiniDRAGON+ board very early on and has implemented it into his class at the University of Wyoming beginning in 2003. Since then, many professors have followed his path and made the MiniDRAGON+ board one of the most popular HCS12 trainers available.  His book uses the MiniDRAGON+ board as an evaluation board and many sample programs can run on the MiniDRAGON+ board.
Professor Barrett has been using our MiniDRAGON+ board in his classes and senior designs since 2003 at University of Wyoming. 

Professor Richard Haskell's new HCS12 book Learning By Example Using C:  Programming the HCS12 Microcontroller Using CodeWarrior at http://www.lbebooks.com/index.htm
In his new book you will learn to write programs in C and compile them to HCS12 code using Code Warrior.  The CodeWarrior itself can be daunting, but his book will make it easy for you to learn what you nee
d to quickly get your microcontroller to work. His book does it by providing you with an LBE_DP256 stationary project from which you can easily build your own particular application.  
His books use our Dragon12-Plus and MiniDRAGON-Plus2 as evaluation boards. Many sample programs in the books will run on these boards.  

Professor Han-Way Huang's new HCS12 book The HCS12/9S12: An Introduction to Software and Hardware interfacing
Besides his new HCS12 textbook Professor Huang has written textbooks for different microcontrollers, such as 8051 and PIC microcontrollers.  His new HCS12 book provides a total solution for learning and teaching embedded system design based on the Motorola HCS12 microcontroller.  His new textbook certainly guarantees that the many more professors will choose the DRAGON12 board as their HCS12 trainers in classrooms and DRAGON12 trainer has become one of the most popular HCS12 trainers in universities around the world.  Almost all of the programs in his book (on back-of-book CD) can be downloaded into the DRAGON12 board and can be run without any modification. 
ISBN: 1401898122


Some popular textbooks for the 68HC12:
68HC12 Microcontroller: Theory and Applications, by D. J. Pack and S. F. Barrett, ISBN: 0-13-033776-5, 2002.
Software and Hardware Engineering Motorola M68Hc12, by Fredrick M Cady  and James M Sibigtroth, ISBN: 0-19-512469-3, 2000.
Design of Embedded Systems Using 68HC12/11 Microcontrollers, by Richard E. Haskell, ISBN: 0-13-083208-1, 2000

Some popular textbooks for the 68HC11:
MC68HC11: An Introduction by Han-Way Huang
Microcontroller Technology by Peter Spasov, ISBN: 0-13-112984-8

A popular book for the 68HC12 family:
Programming the Motorola M68HC12 Family, by Gordon Doughman, ISBN: 0929392671, 2000

 

Free on-line textbooks:

A popular free textbooks for the 68HC12 and C programming:
Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing by Jonathan W. Valvano

Some popular free textbooks for the 68HC11:
http://bd.thrijswijk.nl/mcca1/68hc11_intro.htm
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec201/Book/6811_asm.html