Muhammad Ali Mazidi (May 10, 1954 - August 30, 2022) was an Iranian electrical engineer and lecturer. Mazidi went to Tabriz University and held master's degrees from both Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. He was the founder of MicroDigitalEd and taught microprocessor-based system design. He was also a scholar of and occasional lecturer on the Baháʼí Faith. He had authored/co-authored a number of books, available from Prentice Hall and Amazon Kindle: 80X86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers: Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing Volumes I & II, Prentice Hall () x86 PC: Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing, Prentice Hall () 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Prentice Hall () PIC Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Prentice Hall () HCS12 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Prentice Hall () AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Prentice Hall () ARM Assembly Language Programming & Architecture, Amazon Kindle TI ARM Peripherals Programming and Interfacing, Amazon Kindle Freescale ARM Cortex-M Embedded Programming, Amazon Kindle External links MicroDigitalEd.com (Website to accompany the books) Iranian technology writers Living people Southern Methodist University alumni University of Texas at Dallas alumni 1954 births