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33CHAPTER TWO

Microcontroller Concepts

Control Unit

Each program instruction is decoded by the control unit, which is also called the instruction decoder. This unit generates the internal signals that control the functions of all the other units within the CPU section. All instructions are fetched from the program memory ONLY. Instructions can be fetched from either the internal program memory (for those devices which possess one)

or from external program memory. Instruction fetch operations are indicated when the CPU activates (lowers) the /PSEN line (NOT program strobe enable). A program memory fetch cycle lasts as long as /PSEN stays low. External program memory must only drive the data bus with the addressed instruction while /PSEN is low.

Program Counter

This is the pointer to the next instruction to be executed. The 16-bit program counter (PC) controls the sequence in which the instructions stored in program memory are executed.

Instruction Register

This is the register that contains the instruction that is currently being executed.

Internal Program Memory

The 8051 family has 16 address lines, and can directly address 216 = 64 kilobytes of program memory. The original 8051 has 4 kilobytes of program memory resident on-chip, the 8031 has no on-chip program memory, and the 8052 has 8 kilobytes of program memory. Other variants of the family are available with 1 to 64 kilobytes of various types of non-volatile program memory built in. The 64 kilobyte program memory address space is composed of a combination of internal and external program memory (external program memory only on the 8031 and 8032). When external program memory is accessed, and the processor is fetching an instruction to be executed, the external program read cycle is signaled by activating the CPU’s /PSEN control line. The MOVC instruction also activates /PSEN to enable reading the code memory

35 CHAPTER TWO

Microcontroller Concepts

banks, SFRs, and general-purpose data storage. The programmer (or compiler) may also use this scratch pad memory for storing intermediate calculations on a temporary basis. The 8031 contains a 128 byte internal data RAM (addresses 0-7Fh, which includes registers R0-R7 in each of four banks), in addition to the memory-mapped special function register (locations 80-FFh). The 8032 has an additional 128 bytes of internal data RAM also at locations 80-FFh, which can only be accessed by using indirect register addressing (@R0, @R1) and the stack. The lower 128 byte half of the 256 byte internal data memory address space contains four blocks of eight CPU registers, R0-7. In the 80x2 CPU, the upper 128 bytes of the internal data memory address space are shared between data memory and the SFRs, depending upon the address mode. The upper 128 bytes of data memory must be accessed using the indirect register 0/1 (@R0 or @R1 operands) or stack accesses, and all other references to addresses of 128 or higher will access the SFRs. All registers, except the program counter and the four 8-register banks, reside in the special function register address space. These memory mapped registers include arithmetic registers, pointers, I/O ports, and registers for the interrupt system, timers and serial channel. There are 128 bit locations in the SFR

The 8051 family devices have two data memories, internal and external. With 16 address bits, there is a maximum of 64 kilobytes of external data memory, which is useful for storing large blocks of variable information that will not fit in the internal data RAM. It is enabled when the processor reads or writes data from the external data memory, signaled by activating the /RD and /WR control lines. This occurs only when a MOVX instruction is used to read or write from external memory.