Interfacing LED with 8051 Microcontroller

Aim:

Light Emitting Diodes (LED) is the most commonly used components, usually for displaying pins digital states. Typical uses of LEDs include alarm devices, timers and confirmation of user input such as a mouse click or keystroke. The main aim of this project is how to interface a single LED to 8051 microcontroller.

Description:

Interfacing LED:

Fig. 1 shows how to interface the LED to microcontroller. As you can see the Cathode is connected through a resistor to GND & the Anoode is connected to the Microcontroller pin. So when the Port Pin is HIGH the LED is ON & when the Port Pin is LOW the LED is turned OFF.

Interfacing LED with 8051

We now want to flash a LED in 8051 board. It works by turning ON a LED & then turning it OFF & then looping back to START. However the operating speed of microcontroller is very high so the flashing frequency will also be very fast to be detected by human eye.

The 8051 board has eight numbers of point LEDs, connected with I/O Port lines to make port pins high.

Pin Assignment with 8051

	Point LEDs		8051 Lines	LED Selection	Connections
DIGITAL OUTPUTS	LED.0		PORTx=0x01		Connect Any one PORT fromP0, P1, P2, P3
	LED.1		Px=0x02
	LED.2		Px=0x04
	LED.3		Px=0x08
	LED.4		Px=0x10
	LED.5		Px=0x20
	LED.6		Px=0x40
	LED.7		Px=0x80

Block Diagram

Schematic:

Code:

// ***********************************************************
// Project: Interfacing Single LED to 8051
// Author: Code Bloges
// Module description: Operate single LED
// ***********************************************************
#include<reg51.h>

void delay(int);
void main()
{
 P2 = 0x01;
}

Downloads:

The code was compiled in Keil uvision4 and simulation was made in Proteus v7.7.
To download code and proteus simulation click here.

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