Saturday, February 27, 2016

8051 Features

Important Features of 8051

  • 8bit ALU
  • 8 bit accumulator
  • 8 bit registers
  • One 16 bit register with special move instruction
  • 8 bit data bus
  • 16 bit address bus
  • 16 bit program counter
  • 16 bit data or stack pointer
  • Boolean processor with 17 instructions, 1 bit accumulator, 32 registers (4 bit addressable 8 bit), 144 special 1 bit addressable RAM variables (18 bit addressable 8 bit)
  • Multiply, Divide and compare instruction
  • 4 register bank with 8 registers each
  • 3 Internal and 2 external interrupt sources
  • Interrupt with 2-level priority and optional register bank switching
  • 128 bytes of on-chip RAM (Data memory)
  • 4K bytes of on-chip ROM (Program Memory)
  • Four 8 bit bidirectional input/output ports
  • Serial port – UART
  • Two 16 bit counter/timers
  • Power saving mode
  • 1 Microsecond instruction cycle with 12 MHz Crystal



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8051 History   |   8051 Pin Diagram   |   8051 Architecture   |   8051 Memory Types   |   8051 Memory Map

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