PORTS AND

TIMERS/COUNTERS (L23)

Dr. Sampath Kumar,

Associate Professor
Dept. of ECE,
Manipal Institute of
Technology, Manipal.
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 PORTS

• Interfacing with peripheral devices

• Speed and characteristics of these devices are different from
the processor
• Not connected directly
• Interface chips are needed
• They synchronize data transfer between processor and I/O

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 PORT STRUCTURE AND OPERATION
• 8051 microcontroller has 32 I/O pins - Port 0 to port 3
• To monitor and control other devices
• D-latch, output driver and
input buffer

• To access external
program and data memory,
the output driver of port 0
and port 2 and input buffer
of port 0 is used

• Addr/Data are Multiplexed

• The ports can be defined

as input or output port

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 TIMERS/COUNTERS

• 8051 has 2 timers – Timer 0 and Timer 1

• Both are 16 bit timers/counters
• Both contain two 8 bit registers – TH0, TL0 and TH1, TL1
• It can be used to create time delay or to count the external
events

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 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIMER -
COUNTER

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 Thank you

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