8051 Microcontroller, Tutorials 2 November 2009

What is an interrupt?
An interrupt is an asynchronous signal that needs attention. An interrupt stops the CPU of a microcontroller, leaving the tasks that it is currently doing, to give attention to the interrupt signal. Once the attention has been given to the interrupt signal, the CPU goes back to its unaccomplished …

 8051 Microcontroller, Tutorials 1 November 2009

What is UART?
UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. As its name implies, it is universal. It can be used to establish a communication between a microcontroller and another device – microcontroller, USB controller, Bluetooth modules, GSM modules, GPS modules, personal computers, etc.

 8051 Microcontroller, Tutorials 24 October 2009

Introduction
This tutorial is about using the internal timers/counters of 8051. This will tackle the registers associated with the internal timers/counters of 8051 and this will also enumerate the steps on using the timers/counters.

 8051 Microcontroller, Tutorials 19 September 2009

Introduction
This tutorial will introduce you the basics about programming the input and output ports on an 8051 microcontroller using C language.

 8051 Microcontroller 18 September 2009

 
Introduction
In this tutorial, I am going to discuss how to create a C project intended for 8051 family of microcontrollers. I am going to use the free evaluation toolkit for 8051 from Raisonance. This tutorial aims to discuss the basics of creating project using the toolkit from Raisonance. However, the …