Bilkent University
Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering
EEE 212:
Microprocessors - 2008 Spring Semester
INTRODUCTION TO
MDE 8051 TRAINER
(The reference: http://www.microdigitaled.com/hardware/mde8051/MDE8051.htm)

MDE8051
uses DS89C420/430 as its microcontroller. You can find detailed information
about DS89C420/430 in the following links:
http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/2963
http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/4078
Some of the feature of the MDE 8051 :
- Serially programmable (Using PC
Hyperterminal, no need for external EPROM
burner)
- Dual serial ports
- Integrated Digital I/O (8
Switches & 8 LEDs)
- All ports accessible via
terminal blocks
- Onboard power supply
Some of the major Features of DS89C420/430
used in our MDE 8051 Trainer :
- 80C52 Compatible
- 8051 Pin-
and Instruction-Set Compatible
- Four
Bidirectional I/O Ports
- (Our MDE 8051
Trainer has them accessible via Terminal Block and male connector)
- Three 16-Bit
Timer Counters
- 256 Bytes
Scratchpad RAM
- On-Chip Memory
- 16kB Flash
Memory
- In-System
Programmable through Serial
Port
- (No need
for EPROM burner. Use PC COM port to download your program using MS
Windows HyperTerminal)
- 1kB SRAM for
MOVX
- ROMSIZE Feature
- Selects
Internal Program Memory Size from 0 to 16k
- Allows
Access to Entire External Memory Map
- High-speed architecture
- 1
clock-per-machine cycle
- DC to 33MHz
operation
- (Our MDE
8051 Trainer has 11.0592 MHz Crystal)
- Two full-duplex serial ports
- (Our MDE
8051 Tainer has two DB connectors for them)
- Programmable watchdog timer
- 13 interrupt sources (six
external)
-Circuit
Schematics
The
circuit schematics is provided in the following link:
datasheets\DATASHEET-MDE8051.pdf
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