ADD Instruction in Intel 8051 (MCS-51) Microcontroller

The ADD instruction tells the microcontroller’s CPU to add the source byte to register A and put the result in register A. Recall, A is the accumulator register typically used for all arithmetic and logic instructions.

ADD Instruction in Intel 8051 (MCS-51) Microcontroller

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The MOV Instruction in Intel 8051 (MCS-51) Microcontroller

The MOV Instruction in Intel 8051 (MCS-51) Microcontroller

The MOV instruction tells the CPU to move (in actual fact COPY) the source operand to the destination operand.

MOV destination, source   ; copy source to destination

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The Basic Structure of Intel 8051 Microcontroller

The Intel 8051 also known as MCS-51 is an 8-bit microcontroller and one of the most popular microcontrollers. The Intel 8051 has four parallel input/output ports; ports 0, 1, 2 and 3. Ports 0, 2 and 3 also have alternative … Read More