Hackaday

Learn Shift Registers Without Involving A Microcontroller

This is a truly hands-on approach to learning. [Kevin Darrah] ditched the microcontroller and is using push buttons to learn about 595 shift registers. The test rig uses two of the serial-in, parallel ...
EDN

8051 microcontroller

8-bit 8051-based µC has an 8-bit A/D converter, 14-segment LCD driver, 8-Kbyte flash memory, and 256 Mbytes of RAM; includes one channel each of SPWM and PWM, up to 36 I/Os, and three 16-bit timers; ...
Hackaday

Arduino Code? On My 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...
Design-Reuse

Fastest-Running 8051 Microcontroller IP Core Now Available from CAST

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, January 28, 2014 -- An 8051-compatible microcontroller core with 26.85 times the performance per MHz of the original 8051 chip is now available from semiconductor intellectual ...