Hello Readers:
I have started this blog to show you Embedded C programming for 8051 family microcontroller using KEIL compiler. The KISS philosophy is used to write this tutorial. What is KISS? Keep It Simple, Stupid!
2. Manipulating Port Pins
This section teaches you how to manipulate port pins bytewise and bitwise.
2.2 Bitwise [single bit]
This program blinks single LED and thus shows how to manipulate single bit of microcontroller chip.
Code explanation:
Line 05: Declaring single bit [0th bit] of Port 2 using sbit key word.
Line 11: Initializing Port 2 to 0x00.
Line 13: This statement creates infinite loop.
Line 15: Making LED connected to Port 2 pin 0 HIGH.
Line 16: 250 MilliSecond Delay.
Line 17: Making LED connected to Port 2 pin 0 LOW.
Line 18: 250 MilliSecond Delay.
After typing the code, press F7 or click Project->Build Target for building the source code. If there are no typical errors file will build successively and shows zero errors and zero warnings.
Now enter into debug mode by pressing Ctrl+F5 or click Debug->Start/Stop Debug Session menu. Our program is making/toggling LED connected to Port 2-pin 0 continuously by sending 0 & 1 repeatedly. So we want to watch the Port 2 0th pin while running this program for changing values. To get Port 2 tab click Peripherals->I/O Ports->Port 2 menu.
Run the program by pressing F5 or clicking Debug->Run. You can see the Port 2 0th pin toggles continuously. If you generate HEX file of this program, burn it into your target chip’s memory using suitable uploader and connecting an LED to 0th pin of Port 2 you can watch LED blinking. To stop running the program press red ‘x’ mark icon or click Debug->Stop.
...till next post bye-bye & take care.