Example Microcontroller: 8051

• Very old, very common and very cheap microcontroller

  • Lots of variants

• Review online documentation

  • learn how to read documentation

• Instruction set

  • instruction capabilities
  • timing

• Special registers and integrated I/O devices

  • I/O ports
  • serial interface

• Interrupt organization

• Memory space and its allocation

• Timers

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