Programming 8051 microcontrollers in C language, first steps (PL)

Author: Jacek Majewski

ISBN: 83-60233-01-2
Format: B5, 304 pages
Hardcover
BTC Publishing House
Warsaw 2005

About the book (only in Polish)

Microcontrollers from the MCS51 family, despite the passage of years, still enjoy great popularity. New variants of processors with increasingly advanced peripheral modules and the need to create applications in a short time cause high-level languages to be used more and more often for writing software for microcontrollers. In this field, the undisputed leader is the C language. All the examples included in the book were written using the Keil C compiler, which over the past several years has become a solid (and, very importantly, stable) standard. Most of the projects presented in the book can be compiled and simulated in the demonstration version of the Keil C compiler (limitation of the output code size to 2 kB).

After the section explaining the use of various peripheral modules of the microcontroller, a dozen or so practical applications are presented (e.g., a function library for operating an LCD display, a numeric calculator, melody playback). Complete listings and schematics are provided for all examples. One of the greatest advantages of the C language is the relatively easy portability of programs to different hardware platforms, so the examples included in the book can serve as a starting point for creating similar applications using other microcontrollers.

The book is intended for all enthusiasts of microprocessor technology who intend to use the C language. Many of the pieces of information contained in the book may be useful to students of electronics, automation, and computer science faculties of technical universities, as well as to engineers-designers of microprocessor systems.

To download

Table of contents in PDF format (PDF 33 kB)
Introduction to the book in PDF format (PDF 46 kB)
Source programs of examples from the book (ZIP 6.5 MB)