Here in one volume is everything a student needs to tackle the electronics and microprocessor elements within an electronics course. It is an ideal introductory text, since the complete range of commonly applied electronic circuit building blocks are described, and supported by a rigorous analysis of fault finding procedures on modern electronic systems. All three main categories of integrated circuit - digital, analogue, microprocessor - and their support chips - are covered. The major microprocessor families (including the Pentium processor), the hardware and software implications, high level programming languages (Basic, Pascal and C), and the major operating systems, including Windows, are explained. All of this is supplemented by worked examples and solutions, useful appendices and a glossary of commonly used terms.