Microcontroller, Interfacing and Applications

Introduction:

1. Microprocessors and Micro-controllers.
2. External memory.
3. Processor Architecture – Harvard v/s Princeton.
4. CISC v/s RISC.

The 8051 microcontrollers:

1. Features.
2. 8051 Architecture.
3. RAM organization.
4. ROM structure.
5. Hardware Features.
6. 8051 – Device packaging.
7. Chip technology.
8. Power considerations.
9. Reset.
10. System clock/oscillators.
11. Brief discussion on Parallel I/O.
12. Timers.
13. Interrupts.
14. Serial I/O.
15. Pin configuration.

Instructions Set and programming of 8051:

1. Brief description of assemblers.
2. Linkers and loaders.
3. Types of instructions.
4. Instruction size.
5. Addressing modes.
6. Assembly language Programming using Simulator.
7. Instruction set – data movement.
8. Arithmetic.
9. Bit operators.
10. Branch.
11. Software development tools like assemblers.
12. Simulators.
13. Cross-compilers.
14. Output file formats.
15. Programming examples.

Timers and counters in 8051:

1. Features.
2. Architecture and block diagram.
3. Timer modes.
4. States.
5. Timing generation and event counting.
6. Different techniques to generate delays.
7. Programming examples and applications.