Scribd
Upload
29 views2 pages

Unit No. 4 Microcontroller ( C) : Important Features and Applications

Uploaded by

helps7025
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
29 views2 pages

Unit No. 4 Microcontroller ( C) : Important Features and Applications

Uploaded by

helps7025
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Computer Science ( D9) XII - Paper –II

Unit No. 4 Microcontroller (µC)


The Intel 8051 is a single chip microcontroller (µC) which was developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded
systems. The official designation for the 8051 family is MCS 51. Microcontrollers are used in automatically
controlled products and devices, such as automobile engine control systems, implantable medical devices,
remote controls, office machines, appliances, power tools, and toys. By reducing the size and cost compared to a
design that uses a separate microprocessor, memory, and input/output devices, microcontrollers make it
economical to digitally control even more devices and processes. Mixed signal microcontrollers are common,
integrating analog components needed to control non-digital electronic systems.

Important features and applications:


It provides many functions (CPU, RAM, ROM, I/O, interrupt logic, timer, etc.) in a single package.
 8-bit ALU, Accumulator and 8-bit Registers; hence it is an 8-bit microcontroller
 8-bit data bus - It can access 8 bits of data in one operation
 16-bit address bus - It can access 216 memory locations - 64 KB (65536 locations) each of
RAM and ROM
 On-chip RAM - 128 bytes (data memory)
 On-chip ROM - 4 kByte (program memory)
 Four byte bi-directional input/output port
 UART (serial port)
 Two 16-bit Counter/timers
 Two-level interrupt priority
 Power saving mode (on some derivatives)
 111 Powerful instruction set

Memory Architecture
The 8021 has four distinct types of memory - internal RAM, special function registers, program memory, and
external data memory.
External Data memory: Internal RAM (IRAM) is located from address 0 to address 0xFF. IRAM from 0x00 to
0x7F can be accessed directly.
Special function registers (SFR) are located from address 0x80 to 0xFF, and are accessed directly using the
same instructions as for the lower half of IRAM.
Program memory is located starting at address 0. It may be on- or off-chip, depending on the particular model of
chip being used. Program memory is read-only, though some variants of the 8051 use on-chip flash memory and
provide a method of re-programming the memory in-system or in-application.

Page 41
Computer Science ( D9) XII - Paper –II

Other Microcontrollers are: 8048, 8049, 8050, 8052 etc.


 8048, 8049 and 8050:
1. Intel’s first microcontroller was 8048. The 8048, 8049 and 8050 all have identical
architectures with the exception of memory size.
2. In each case the internal memory doubles i.e. 1K, 2K, 4k of internal memory used in all above
microcontroller.
3. In each case Internal RAM sizes are: 64Bytes 128 Bytes and 256 Bytes resp.
4. All above microcontroller are low cost products and hence are very popular.
5. 27 I/O lines for ports.
6. One 8 bits timer event counter.
7. Address capacity of 4048 is 4 K bytes.

 8052:
1. 8052 is a simple expansion of 8051
2. 8052 has 8K bytes of onboard ROM and 256 bytes of onboard RAM
3. 8053 allows programmers to write larger programs and that can use more data.
4. The cost of 8052 is more than that 8051.
5. The 8052 has one extra 16 bit counter timer.

Page 42

You might also like