Contents

• Unit 1. THE 8051 MICROCONTROLLER: Introduction, The 8051 microcontroller hardware, I/O pins, Port, External memory, Counters and Timers, Serial data, Interrupts.

   

  Unit 2. 8051 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING: Addressing modes, External data moves, push and pop opcodes, Logical operations, Byte level and bit level logical operations, Arithmetic operations, Jump and call instructions, Interrupts & returns.

   

  Unit 3. REAL TIME CONTROL: Interrupts, Multiple sources of interrupts, Non maskable sources of interrupts, Interrupt structure in 8051,Timers,Free running counter & Real Time control .

   

  Unit 4. SYSTEM DESIGN: Serial I/O interface, Parallel I/O ports interface, Digital and Analog interfacing methods, LED array, keyboard, Printer, Flash memory interfacing.

   

  Unit 5. INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDED SYSTEM: Application of Microcontrollers in interfacing, Robotics, MCU based measuring instruments. Real Time Operating System for System Design, Multitasking System, Task Definition in a Multitasking System, Round Robin Scheduling, Full Preemptive Scheduling, Basic study and Features of Commercial RTOS : WINCE and Embedded Linux.