Interfacing of LED with 8051

Microcontrollers

By Prof. Amit Kshirsagar

8051 I/O Ports
3 A Pin of Port 0

Read latch
TB2

Internal CPU D Q P0.X

bus P1.X pin

Write to latch Clk Q M1

TB1
Read pin

8051 IC
 Port 0 with Pull-Up Resistors
4

Vcc
10 K

P0.0
DS5000 P0.1

Port 0
P0.2
8751 P0.3
8951 P0.4
P0.5
P0.6
P0.7
5 A Pin of Port 1

Read latch Vcc

TB2
Load(L1)

Internal CPU D Q P1.X

bus P1.X pin

Write to latch Clk Q M1

TB1
Read pin

8051 IC
6 Writing “1” to Output Pin P1.X

Read latch Vcc

TB2
Load(L1) 2. output pin is
1. write a 1 to the pin Vcc
Internal CPU D Q 1 P1.X
bus P1.X pin

Clk Q 0 M1
output 1
Write to latch

TB1
Read pin

8051 IC
7 Writing “0” to Output Pin P1.X

Read latch Vcc

TB2
Load(L1) 2. output pin is
1. write a 0 to the pin ground
Internal CPU D Q 0 P1.X
bus P1.X pin

Clk Q 1 M1
output 0
Write to latch

TB1
Read pin

8051 IC
 LED (Light Emitting Diode)
 The intensity of the light emitted by an LED depends on the amount of
forward current passed through the device. The maximum allowable forward
current is denoted by IFmax.
 When designing an LED circuit, we have to know the typical voltage drop,
VTyp across the device, and the maximum allowable voltage drop, V Fmax.
 The brightness of the emitted light is measured in millicandela (mcd) and this
is usually referenced to the forward current.
 For example, standard red LEDs are quoted to have brightness of 5 mcd when
operated at 10 mA.
Interfacing LED
● Current passing through the LED should be limited to
maximum forward current (IF).
● To find the value of this resistor, we use the forward voltage and
forward current.
● We design a circuit with 5V supply and forward current of
10mA. We use a red LED here.

R = (5 – 2)/10mA = 300 ohms(Use 270 ohms)

Common Cathode Connection
Common Anode Connection
 Program for Blinking LED Interfaced with Port1 pins

 ORG 00H
 START: MOV A,#00
 MOV P1,A
 CALL DELAY
 MOV A,#0FF;
 MOV P1,A
 CALL DELAY
 SJMP START
 END
Delay Subroutine

 DELAY: MOV R0, #0FFH

 L2: DJNZ R0, L2
 RET

Delay Calculation

 Instruction No of Bytes
 DELAY: MOV R0, #0FFH 2
 L2: DJNZ R0, L2 3
 RET 3

 Delay Generated by Subroutine

 Delay= {(No of M/c Cycle inside loop)*Count + M/c Cycle

count outside loop)} * 1.05uSec.
 Delay= {( 3 ) * 256 + 5 } * 1.05uSec
 Delay= 811.65 uSec =8 mSec
Delay Calculation
 Instruction No of Bytes
 DELAY: MOV R0, #0FFH 2
 L2: MOV R1, #0FFH 2
 L1: DJNZ R1, L1 3
 DJNZ R0, L2 3
 RET 2
