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Overview of the 8051 Family

One of the oldest (Intel MCS-51 in 1981) and the most probably popular microcontroller. Many derivatives marketed by a number of are vendors Common features, 8-bit processor

4 I/O ports each 8bits wide max of 64K on-chip ROM (usually 0k to 4k) max of 64K external data memory max of 64K external code memory 2 timers, one serial port 128 bytes of on-chip RAM various speeds from 12MHz

Clones may have different on-chip memory, timers etc


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8051 Block Diagram

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8051 Pinout Diagram From Intel 87C51


datasheet

DIP package and lower 8 Data lines Two


ports P0 and P2 by AD

address lines are muxed are used buses Clones may not be pin compatibl e
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8051 with programmable

Some 8051 clones


8031 No on-chip ROM With on-chip 8751 EPROM8051 with 128 bytes extra IRAM, extra 16 8052 timer, additional SFRs to use the timer bit Atmel AT89C51 With on-chip Flash ROM Dallas Semicondustor DS5000 NV-RAM and In system programmable via serial-port On-chip Philips Corp. 8051 cores from FPGA vendors Altera, Xilinx,
etc

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