CoE3DJ4Digital Systems Design

Hardware summary

Microprocessors vs. Microcontrollers • Microprocessors are single-chip CPU used in microcomputers

• Microcontrollers and microprocessors are different in three main aspects: hardware architecture, applications and instruction set features

• Hardware architecture: A microprocessor is a single chip CPU while microcontroller in a single IC contains a CPU and much of remaining circuitry of a complete computer (e.g., RAM, ROM, serial interface, parallel interface, timer, interrupt handling circuit)

• Applications: Microprocessors are commonly used as CPU in computers while microcontrollers are found in small, minimum component designs performing control oriented activates

Microprocessors vs. Microcontrollers• Instruction set:

– Microprocessor instruction sets are processing intensive. • Their instructions operate on nibbles, bytes, words, or even double words.

• Addressing modes provide access to large arrays of data using pointers and offsets

– Microcontroller instruction sets cater to control of input and outputs.• They have instructions to set and clear individual bits and perform bit

operations

• Have instructions for input/output operations, event timing, enabling and setting priority levels for interrupts caused by external stimuli

• Processing power of a microcontroller is much less than a microprocessor

MCS-51• 8051 belongs to MCS-51 family of microcontrollers

• MCS-51 was developed by Intel but other manufacturers (e.g., Siemens, Philips) are second source of this family.

• Summary of features of 8051:– 4K bytes ROM

– 128 bytes RAM

– Four 8-bit I/O ports

– Two 16 bit timers

– Serial interface

– 64K external code memory space

– 64K external data memory space

– 210 bit-addressable locations

8051• 8051 has 40 pins• 32 pins function as I/O port lines, 24 of them are dual purpose

(each can operate as I/O or as a control line or part of address or data bus)

• Eight lines in each port can be treated as a unit in interfacing to parallel devices (e.g, ADC) or each line can operate independently in interfacing to single bit devices (e.g., switches)

• Port 0: a dual purpose port on pins 32-39• Port 1: a dedicated I/O port on pins 1-8• Ports 2: dual purpose ports on pins 21-28 (could be a general

purpose I/O or high byte of the address bus for external memory)

• Ports 3: dual purpose ports on pins 10-17

8051• /PSEN (Program Store Enable): is a control signal that

enables external code memory • It is usually connected to the output enable (OE) pin of the

external code memory (e.g., EPROM)• When executing a program from internal ROM, PSEN

remains in the inactive (high) state• ALE (Address Latch Enable): 8051 uses ALE for

demultiplexing the address and data bus• ALE pulses at 1/6th the on chip oscillator • When Port 0 is used in its alternate mode, ALE latches the

address into an external register during first half of memory cycle

• After this, Port 0 lines are available for data input or output during the second half of memory cycle

8051• /EA (external access, pin 31): if high, 8051 executes programs

from internal ROM. If low programs executes from external memory only

• RST (reset, pin 9): master reset for 8051. When high for two clock cycles, 8051 internal registers are loaded with appropriate values for a start-up

• On-chip oscillator inputs: 8051 oscillator is typically driven by a crystal connected to pins 18 and 19

Memory • 8051 implements a separate memory space for programs

(code) and data• Both code and data may be internal however both expand

using external components to a maximum of 64K code memory and 64K data memory

• Internal memory consists of on-chip ROM and on-chip data RAM.

• On-chip RAM contains a rich arrangement of general purpose storage, bit addressable storage, register banks, and special function register

• In 8051 the register and input output ports are memory mapped and accessible like any other memory location

• In 8051 stack resides within the internal RAM, rather than in external RAM

Memory• Besides addresses 30H to 7FH, the bottom 32 bytes from 00H

to 2FH can be used as general purpose RAM.

• Example: to read the content of internal RAM address 5FH into accumulator: MOV A,5FH

• Another way of doing the same thing: MOV R0, #5FH

MOV A, @R0

Bit addressable RAM• Individual accessing of bits is a powerful feature of

microcontrollers

• Bits can be set, cleared, ANDed, ORed etc, with a single instruction

• 8051 ports are bit-addressable simplifying interface to single bit inputs and outputs.

• 8051 contains 210 bit-addressable locations

• 128 of these locations are at addresses 20H to 2FH and the rest are in the special function registers

Bit addressable RAM• These address can be accessed as byte or as bit depending on

the instruction

• Example: SETB 67H – Sets bit with address 67H which is the MSB of byte address 2CH

• What instruction can be used to set bit 3 in byte address 25H?– SETB 2BH

Register Banks• Bottom 32 locations of internal memory contains the register

banks

• 8051 supports 8 registers R0 to R7 and after a system reset (default) the registers are at address 00H to 07H

• MOV A, R5: reads the content of address 05H into accumulator

• MOV A,05H with do the same thing

• Active register bank may be altered by changing the register bank select bits

Register Banks• Assuming register bank 3 is active, the following instruction

write contents of accumulator into location 18H:– MOV R0,A

• Idea of register bank permits fast and effective context switching

• Example: what is the address of register 5 in register bank 3?– 1CH

Special function registers• 8051 has 21 special function registers (SFRs) at the top of

internal RAM from address 80H to FFH.

• Most of addresses from 80H to FFH are not defined except 21 of them.

• Some SFRs are both bit-addressable and byte addressable and it depends on the instruction

• Example: What instruction can set MSB of accumulator B?– SETB F7H

Program status word• Program status word (PSW) at address DOH contains status

bits as summarized in the following table

• Carry flag: is dual purpose. It is used in traditional way for arithmetic operations

• Example: What is the state of carry flag and the content of accumulator after the following instructions:MOV R5,#55H

MOV A,#AAH

ADD A,R5

– C=0, ACC=FFH

Program status word• Carry flag is also the “Boolean accumulator”: 1 bit register

for Boolean instructions

• Example: ANLC,25H

• ANDs bit 25H with the carry flag and places the result back in carry flag

• Auxiliary carry flag (AC): is set if a carry was generated out of bit 3 into bit 4 or if the result in the lower nibble is in the range 0AH to 0FH

• AC is useful in arithmetic operations on binary coded decimal (BCD) values.

Program status word• Example: what is AC and the content of accumulator after the

following sequence of instructions: MOV R5,#1MOV A,#9ADD A,R5

• Answer: AC=1, ACC=0AH• Flag 0 (F0): a general purpose flag bit available for user • Register Bank Select Bits (RS0 and RS1): determine the

active register bank • Example: the following instructions enable register bank 3

and move the content of R7 (address 1FH) to accumulator SETB RS1SETB RS0MOV A,R7

Program status word• Overflow flag (OV): is set after an addition or subtraction if

there was an arithmetic overflow• When signed numbers are added or subtracted this bit

determines if the result is in the proper range• Results greater than 127 or less than –128 will set OV bit• When unsigned numbers are added OV can be ignored• Example: What is the OV and the content of accumulator

after the following instruction sequence:MOV R7, #FFHMOV A, #0FHADD A,R7– Answer: OV=0, ACC=0EH

Program status word• Parity bit (p): is automatically set or cleared in each machine

cycle to establish even parity in the accumulator

• Number of 1-bits in the accumulator plus P is always even

• P is used in serial port routines

• What is the state of P after execution of the following instruction?MOV A,#55H

– Answer: P=0

B register• B register or accumulator B at address F0H is used along with

the accumulator for multiply and divide operations

• MUL AB: multiplies 8 bit unsigned values in A and B and leaves the 16 bit result in A (low byte) and B (high byte)

• DIV AB: divided A by B, leaving the integer result in A and remainder in B

• B register is bit-addressable

Stack pointer• Stack pointer (SP) is an 8-bit register at address 81H• It contains the address of the data item currently on top of the

stack.• Stack operations include pushing data on the stack and

popping data off the stack• Pushing increments SP before writing the data• Popping from the stack reads the data and decrements the SP• 8051 stack is kept in the internal RAM• Depending on the initial value of the SP, stack can have

different sizes• Example: MOV SP,#5FH• On 8051 this would limit the stack to 32 bytes since the

uppermost address of on chip RAM is 7FH.

Stack pointer & Data pointer • The default value of SP (after system reset) is 07H.• This result in the first stack write operation to store data in

location 08H which means that register bank 1 (and possible 2 and 3) are not available

• User may initialize the SP to avoid this• Data pointer (DPTR): is used to access external data or code• DPTR is a 16 bit register at addresses 82H (low byte) and

83H (high byte)• Example: the following instructions write 55H into external

RAM location 1000H:MOV A,#55HMOV DPTR,#1000HMOVX @DPTR,A

Port registers• 8051 I/O ports consists of Port 0 at address 80H, port 1 at

address 90H, Port 2 at address A0H and port 3 at address B0H.

• Ports 0,2 and 3 may not be available for I/O if external memory is used or if some of the 8051 special features are used

• Ports P1.2 to P1.7 are always available• All ports are bit addressable, providing powerful interfacing

possibilities • Example: a motor which is connected to port 1 bit 7 through a

transistor driver can be turned on and off using the following 8051 instructions:SETB P1.7CLR P1.7

Timer registers• 8051 contains two 16 bit timer/counter for timing intervals

and counting events

• Timer 0 is at addresses 8AH (TL0, low byte) and 8CH (TH0 high byte)

• Timer 1 is at addresses 8BH (TL1, low byte) and 8DH (TH1 high byte)

• Timer operation is set by the timer mode register (TMOD) at address 89H and timer control register (TCON) at address 88H

Serial port registers• Serial port register: 8051 contains an on-chip serial port for

communicating with serial devices

• One register, the serial data buffer (SBUF) at address 90H, hold both transmitted data and received data

• Writing to SBUF loads data for transmission

• Reading SBUF accesses received data

• Various modes of operation can be programmed through bit addressable serial port control register (SCON) at address 98H

Interrupt registers• 8051 has a 5-source, 2 priority level interrupt structure

• Interrupts are disabled after a system reset and then enabled by writing to the interrupt enable register (IE) at address A8H

• Priority level is set through interrupt priority register (IP) at address B8H.

Power control register• Power control register (PCON) at address 87H contains

miscellaneous control bits

• SMOD bit doubles the serial port baud rate when in Modes 1, 2, 3

• PCON bits 6,5, and 4 are undefined

• Bits 3 and 2 are general purpose flag bits available for user

• Idle mode: An instruction that sets the IDL bit will be the last instruction executed before entering idle mode

• In idle mode the internal clock is gated off to the CPU but not to the interrupt, timer and serial port functions. CPU status is preserved and all register contents are maintained

• Idle mode is terminated by any interrupt or by a system reset

Power control register• Power down mode (PD): An instruction that sets the PD bit

will be the last instruction executed before entering power down mode

• In power down mode 1) the on-chip oscillator is stopped 2) all functions are stopped 3) all on chip RAM contents are retained 4) port pins retain their logic levels 5) ALE is held low

External memory• Microcontrollers should have expansion capabilities

• MCS-51 provides this in the form of 64K external code memory space and a 64K external data memory space

• When external memory is used Port 0 becomes a multiplexed address (A0-A7) and data (D0-D7) bus with ALE latching the low-byte of the address at the beginning of each external memory cycle

• Port 2 is employed for the high-byte of the address bus

External memory• External code memory is read only memory and is enabled by

the PSEN signal

• An 8051 machine cycle is 12 oscillator periods

• During a typical machine cycle, ALE pulses twice and 2 bytes are read from program memory

External memory• External data memory is read/write memory enabled by RD

and WR (P3.7 and P3.6)

• RD is connected to OE of the external RAM and WE is connected to RAM’s W line.

• The only access to external data memory is with MOVX instruction, using either 16 bit data pointer (DPTR), R0 or R1 as the address register