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The document contains a sample question paper for a microcontroller exam. It includes 10 short answer questions in Section A testing basic microcontroller concepts like embedded controllers, RISC/CISC processors, and features of the 8051 microcontroller. Section B includes long answer questions testing detailed knowledge, such as listing all 8051 registers, drawing diagrams of the 8051 pinout and memory organization, explaining addressing modes, and identifying flags in the Program Status Word register. The document provides an overview of exam topics and level of detail tested on a microcontroller exam.

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Model Question Paper

The document contains a sample question paper for a microcontroller exam. It includes 10 short answer questions in Section A testing basic microcontroller concepts like embedded controllers, RISC/CISC processors, and features of the 8051 microcontroller. Section B includes long answer questions testing detailed knowledge, such as listing all 8051 registers, drawing diagrams of the 8051 pinout and memory organization, explaining addressing modes, and identifying flags in the Program Status Word register. The document provides an overview of exam topics and level of detail tested on a microcontroller exam.

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Model Question paper of Microcontroller

SECTION-A

SHORT QUESTIONS: ( each 2 marks)

1. What do you mean by the term embedded controllers ?

Ans: The devices that has all the functional blocks on chip, including the program
and data memory andthere is no
external data/address bus provided. For example, ATMEL89C2051.

2. Discuss the advantages of microcontrollers over microprocessors in


control applications?

Ans: The first main advantage is that the ALUs can be assembled together
horizontally to form computers that can
handle very large data at a time. Another advantage is bit slice design that makes
use of possible bipolar
chip technology that is very fast.

3. What are RISC and CISC processors?

Ans: RISC chips requires lesser hardware implementations, which makes them
simpler to design and hence lesser costs
of production.

4. Discuss the criteria for selecting a microcontroller device.

Ans: It must have ram and rom to support its inbuilt functions. It must have +5v
supply, must be fast and should
have programmable and data memory.

5. List few features of 8051 microcontroller?


Ans: - Operating frequency is 12mhz, separate 64k program and 64k data memory,
multiply and divide instructions
has a boolean processor

6. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Harvard and Von Neuman


architectures.

Ans: Harvard architecture uses separate memories for program and data memory
whereas Von Neuman uses same program
and data memory.Therefore Harvard is faster compared to other one.

7. What is the purpose of ALU ?

Ans: ALU performs arithmetic and logical operation on 8- bit operands. Accumulator
is the register which gets the
output of the ALU in most of the arithmetic and logical operations.

8. Name 2 register that consists of 16 bit.

Ans: Program counter and Data pointer

9. Name few general purpose registers

Ans: Accumulator, B-register, R0- R7

10. What are SFR?

Ans: The 128 bytes of on-chip additional RAM locations from 80H to 0FFH are
reserved for the special functions and
therefore these are called as special function register.

SECTION-B

LONG QUESTIONS: (each 10 marks)

1. List all the registers used in 8051 microcontroller in brief.

ans: General purpose register: Accumulator, B-registers and four register banks
may be used as general purpose registers.

Accumulator:Similar to any microprocessor like 8085 , MCS-51 has an 8- bit


accumulator. Accumulator is used by all the arithmetic and logical instructions.

B-register: B- register is an 8- bit wide register. It is available as general- purpose


register when it is not being used by multiplication and division operations.
Registers R0 to R7: These eight registers are used as scratch pad registers. There
are four registers banks each containing R0 to R7 registers.

Stack pointer:Stack pointer of 8051 is a 8 bit wide. It is incremented during push or


call operation and is decremented during pop or return operation.

Special function register: The 128 bytes of on-chip additional RAM locations from
80H to 0FFH are reserved for the special functions and
therefore these are called as special function register.

Program Status Word: PSW is an 8 bit register . It consists of auxillary flag,


overflow flag, parity flag.

DPTR (Data pointer):: It is 16 bit register consisting of two types DPH and DPL .
One with data pointer high and other data pointer low.

Timer register: Register pairs th0 , tl0, th1, tl1.

Control registers: TCON, TMOD, IE,IP, SCON, PCON contain the control and
status for interrupts, serialy and timer/ counters.

Capture register:: RCAP2H - RCAP2L are the capture registers.

2. Draw the pin diagram of 8051 microcontroller.

Pin diagram of microcontroller

ans:
3. Draw the memory organisation of mcs - 51.

ans:

4. What are all addressing modes of mcs-51?

ans: There are five addressing modes in 8051 which are as follows:-
1. Register Addressing: In this registers r0 to r7 from the selected register bank,
accumulator, b- register, carry bit and dptr are used.

2. Direct Addressing:In this, direct address of the operand is specified in the


instruction itself . Direct addressing mode uses the lower 128 bytes of internal RAM
and the special function registers.
3. RegisterIndirect Addressing:
It uses any one of the registers R0 to R7 from the selected register bank, as pointer
to the location in the 256 bytes of data memory.

4.Immediate Addressing: Immediate addressing allows using immediate data as a


part of the instructions .

5. Base register and index register: This mode allows a byte to be accessed from
the program memory, whose address is calculated as the sum of a base register
and index register.

5. Enlist the various flags in the PSW register.

ans: The various flag used in PSW register is as follows:-


Parity flag

Overflow flag

RS0

RS1

Future Use
Auxillary Flag

Carry Flag

6. Draw the block diagram of 8051 microcontroller

microcontroller 8051

ans:

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