VIVA QUESTION BANK

Fundamental of Microcontroller and Applications

1. What is microcontroller?

2. How many I/O ports are placed in microcontroller 8051?

3. Define DPTR.

4. What is the purpose of PSW register?

5. What is use of EA pin?

6. How many bit addressable location are placed in internal RAM?

7. What is interrupts signal?

8. Name the types of 8051 interrupts signals.

9. Define clock cycle..

10. Explain the Architecture of 8051.

11..What are the blocks in Microcontroller.

12. Explain the Pin Diagram of 8051.

13.Explain the Instruction set with examples.

14.Explain the block diagram of 8051 Microcontroller

15.What is assembler?

16. Mention the different fields in assembly language instructions?

17. What is operand field?

18.. What are fields used in assembly language instructions as optional?

19. Mention any four addressing modes of 8051?

20. Mention any two examples of direct addressing instructions?

21. What are the instructions used to access external RAM?

22. How can you perform multiplication using 8051 microcontroller?

23. What is the operation carried out when 8051 executes the instruction MOVC
A,@A+DPTR?

24. Write an ALP for multibyte addition.

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24. Explain the different modes of addressing used in 8051.

25. Write an ALP for finding maximum value in an array.

26. Explain assembly and running of an 8051 program.

27. Explain the structure of assembly language.

28. Write an ALP to arrange the given set of ‘n’ numbers in ascending order.

29. Mention the timers of 8051?

30. Mention the bit addresses of ports p0 and p1?

31. How many bit addressable locations are placed in internal RAM of 8051?

32. Mention the SFR registers used in timer operation?

33. Mention the operating modes of 8051?

34. What is the function of C/T bit in TMOD register?

35. Find the timers clock frequency for the crystal frequency of 11.0592MHz?

36. State the function of M1 and M0 bits in TMOD register?

37. What is the function of TF0 bit in TCON register?

38. State the use of T0 pin of 8051?

39. Explain the bit addresses for I/O of 8051.

40. Explain TMOD and TCON registers.

41. Explain bit addresses for RAM.

42. Explain the steps to program the timer 1 in mode 2.

43. Explain in detail about the programming of 8051 timer.

44. Explain the various modes of timer operation with diagram.

45. How will you double the baud rate in 8051?

45. What is the function of SMOD in PCON register?

46. What is RS 232C?

47. How many timers are in 8051? Specify their names.

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48. Mention the four modes of timer operation.

49. Mention are the registers used for timer/counter operation.

50. Define timer operation.

51. Define counter operation.

52. What are registers used for serial communication in 8051?

53. Why are drivers bused in between RS232 and microcontroller?

54. Explain the baud rates of serial communication in 8051.

55. Explain the interrupts of 8051.

56. Explain about the serial port programming.

57. Draw the interfacing diagram of RS232 with 8051 and explain its operation.

58. Explain the functions of each bit of SCON and PCON registers.

59. Explain IP and IE registers.

60. Define peripherals.

61. What is interfacing?

62. What is the use of 8255?

63. Mention the ports placed in group a and group b of 8255.

64. Specify some important LCD modules.

65. What is the use of stepper motor?

66. What is the use of RTC?

67. Mention the capacity of nonvolatile ram placed inside of ds 12887.

68. With the diagram explain how 8051 interfaced to external memory.

69. With the interfacing diagram, explain the operation of delay.

70. Draw the functional diagram of 8255 and explain each block.

71. Draw and explain the interfacing diagram of opto isolater with 8051.

72. Explain the control word format for i/o mode of 8255.

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73. Draw the interfacing diagram of 7 segment display with microcontroller and explain
its operation.

74. Draw the interfacing diagram of stepper motor with microcontroller and explain its
operation.

75. Draw the interfacing diagram of relay with microcontroller and explain its operation.

76. Draw the interfacing diagram of keyboard with microcontroller and explain its
operation.

77. Draw the interfacing diagram of ADC with microcontroller and explain its operation.

78. Draw the interfacing diagram of DAC with microcontroller and explain its operation.

79. List the features of 8051 microcontroller.

80. Name the five interrupt sources of 8051?.

81. Explain the contents of the accumulator after the execution of the following program
segments:

82. Write a program to load accumulator A, DPH and DPL with 30H.

83. Write a program to subtract the contents of R1 of Bank0 from the contents of R0 of
Bank2.

84. What is the difference between the Microprocessors and Microcontrollers?

85. Explain the functions of the pin PSEN of 8051.

86.Name the special functions register SP of 8051.

87.How the program memory is organized in 8051 based system?

88. Define machine cycle

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