MICROCONTROLLER offers more advantages than conventional Microprocessors for implementing dedicated jobs. These ICs are also cost effective and could be used for any applications ranging from appliances to automobile engines to text or data processing equipment. At present these Microcontrollers are used in washing Machines,

Electronic toys, Process Control equipments, Dot Matrix Printers etc.

MCT-51LCD Microprocessor board designed around 8051 is ideal for learning 8 bit Microprocessors and peripherals. This makes use of a LCD display to display the mnemonics and codes using 2 Line by 16 Character LCD display is directly connected to the bus like a memory device. This system has a built in LINE-BY-LINE assembler and disassembler. It means that, whenever a line is entered in assembler mode, it verifies the correctness of mnemonic and assembles into its equivalent opcodes and / or associated data in that line. It is also possible to disassemble the entered programs. The user programs are entered using 101 PC type keyboard.

The MCT-51LCD operates at 10 MHZ. Micro controller’s Address, Data and Control bus pins are brought to the 50-pin FRC connector. MCT-51LCD is equipped with powerful software monitor. The monitor supports Video terminal RS232C interfaces, local 101 keyboard and LCD display. The board has 32KB CMOS static RAM.

Specifications:

1. Hardware:

• 8031/8051 Micro controller operating at 10 MHZ
  
• 32KB powerful software monitor
  
• 256 bytes on chip RAM (partially used by Firmware)
  
• Two 16-bit Programmable Timer
  
• 32 Programmable I/O pins (24 from 8255 and 6 (P1.0 to P1.5) from Port 1 of 8051)
  
• 50 Pin FRC connector for system bus expansion
  
• 50 pin FRC connector for user interface from 8255
  
• 9 Pin D type connector for RS 232C interface
  
• Built-in power supply
  
• Six different selectable baud rates from 150 to 9600
  
• One timer and external interrupt
  
• 101 PC type keyboard for entering user address/data and for commands
  
• Built in line by line assembler and disassembler
  
• User-friendly software monitor for loading and executing programs with break point facility
  
• Facility to connect to PC

2. Software:

• M (MODIFY MEMORY COMMAND)
  
• I (MODIFY INTERNAL MEMORY COMMAND)
  
• T (TRANSFER MEMORY COMMAND)
  
• R (REGISTER DISPLAY/MODIFY) COMMAND
  
• N (LOCAL MODE)
  
• E (EXAMINE / DUMP Memory)
  
• G (GO COMMAND)
  
• A (ASSEMBLE)
  
• D (DISASSEMBLE)
  
• H (HELP)
  
• U (UPLOAD)
  
• L (DOWNLOAD)

3. Terminal Emulation Software:

• SERIAL PORT
  
• SOFTWARE PACKAGE
  
• REMOTE OPERATION OF MCT-51LCD
  
• UPLOADING/ DOWNLOADINGTO / FROM PC TO MCT-51LCD
  
• UPLOADING OF DATA FROM KIT TO PC
  
• DOWNLOADING OF DATA FROM PC TO TRAINER