Teaching the Intel 8051 Microcontroller with hands-on hardware experiments

The Centre in Computer Engineering Studies at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) has developed and built the Intel 8051 Trainer and Application Board that is used by the students at the faculty as a learning tool. This microcontroller is taught in the Microprocessor System course and is available in the Software Application Laboratory. This paper presents the major components of the laboratory exercises and describes each component used as hands-on experiments for teaching 8051 Intel Microcontroller System. Sample of student's output of hands-on experiment is also illustrated.