Tim Wilmshurst was born in West Africa, where he spent his early years and started his schooling. From childhood he was fascinated with how things worked, and spent many hours making models, or taking things to pieces and hoping to put them back together again.

After playing with the idea of a career in professional music, Tim was drawn first into engineering design and then into education. He has had two spells working in the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, one in Botswana Polytechnic, and is currently Head of Electronics at the University of Derby. At Cambridge he had the privilege of contributing to much ground-breaking research through his designs, focussing mainly on control and instrumentation. This included work in the fields of aerospace, geotechnical, medical and motor vehicle. He also claims to have introduced the first microprocessor into the British Houses of Parliament, and the first microcontroller into the Kalahari Desert!

Tim believes in learning by doing, and aims to share his fascination with how things work, and how to devise new or different things. He has developed the Derbot project, which encourages students to develop inventive autonomous vehicles, based on a given core design.

Tim's books encapsulate his teaching and design work; all are supported on his web site, at www.embedded-knowhow.co.uk.

Tim also enjoys long distance cycling and hiking, playing the violin, and family life.

《圖靈電子與電氣工程叢書•PIC嵌入式係統開發》係統而全麵地介紹瞭嵌入式係統設計的原理及其應用，包括嵌入式係統的指令集係統結構、流水綫、存儲設備、定時器、中斷、時鍾、並行串行通信、互連網絡、開發環境和開發語言等重要內容。書中對嵌入式係統設計的講解主要以Microchip公司的3款PIC微控製器（16F84A、16F873A和18F242）為基礎，並輔以大量的設計實例。全書編排閤理，敘述由淺入深，生動活潑。