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The Explore Ultra 8051 Kit comes with all the things required, not just for this experiment but for the entire series. The base board is fully open, no peripheral is directly connected to the MCU breakout board. You may connect any peripheral to any port/pin you wish. The kit is fully open source, you may use the schematics, the design files and all of the source code and build something cool on your own. And when you do that do not forget to share with us what you've done. We would be happy to see you building something cool.

The story of the Ultra Kit does not end here, we have even made the code libraries for all major 8-bit microcontrollers modular. It means you can simple upgrade or even switch your project to a different microcontroller/architecture without changing your application code. The kit ships with all the additional stuff mentioned below to get you started; kickstart your embedded development. What are you waiting for?

Kit Contents: Explore ULTRA PIC Development Board with following Modules, ICs and Interfaces:

1. USB Communication with CP2102
2. Eight 5mm LEDs
3. Eight Switches in DIP package
4. LCD 16x2
5. Four Seven Segment Displays
6. ADC 0808 with 555 timer for sampling frequency
7. POT for ADC
8. Light Sensor(LDR).
9. Temperature sensor(LM35).
10. Two Relays for Switching AC devices.
11. 4x4 Keypad.
12. L293D Motor Driver for DC and Stepper Motors.
13. DS1307 based Real Time Clock.
14. AT2404 EEPROM.
15. USB cable.
16. Power Adapter
17. Single wire female connectors.
    
    

Supported Controllers

Controller	Flashing Software	External Programmer	Comments
At89s52	XploreFlash/ProgIsp	UsbAsp Programmer	IC is cheap and easily available but needs external programmer
P89v519d2	Flash Magic	Not required, uses on board USB	NXP has stopped manufacturing the IC and only the stock items are being sold.
SST8951RD2	Easy ISP	Not required, uses on board USB	IC is good but the programming software is not stable, doesn't save the configuration, needs manual reset and many other problems.
w78e052d	Nuvoton ISP	Not required, uses on board USB	IC is cheap and good GUI for flasing the code. FLashing hex file takes less time compared to all

Driver Installation

• Check this tutorial for Usb2Serial Driver Installation.

Software Setup

• Compiler Installation: Download and Install the Keil software from this link.
• Check this tutorial for setting up the project to generate the .hex file.
• Check this tutorial for Uploading Hex File Using Xplore Flash for AT89S52.
• Check this tutorial for Uploading Hex File Using Nuvoton ISP..

Complete Board Test

The board is shipped with test software loaded in the controller. Connect the board to the System, Open the Serial Terminal and reset the Controller. Follow the below procedure to test all the peripherals.

GPIO Test

Connect the LED's, Buzzer and Relays to any of the port pins and observe the Led Blink, Buzzer-Beep, and Relay-Chattering . *Note:The Rx,Tx pins will not blink as they are controlled by CP2102(Usb2Serial).

LCD 8-bit Test

Below table shows the LCD 8-bit pin connection.

RS	RW	EN	D0	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6	D7
P0_0	P0_1	P0_2	P2_0	P2_1	P2_2	P2_3	P2_4	P2_5	P2_6	P2_7

LCD 4-bit Test

Below table shows the LCD 4-bit pin connection.

RS	RW	EN	D0	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6	D7
P0_0	P0_1	P0_2	P_NC	P_NC	P_NC	P_NC	P2_4	P2_5	P2_6	P2_7

• P_NC: Pin Not Connected

Seven Segment Test

Below table shows the Seven Segment Connection.

Seg1	Seg2	Seg3	Seg4	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
P0_0	P0_1	P0_2	P0_3	P2_0	P2_1	P2_2	P2_3	P2_4	P2_5	P2_6	P2_7

RTC Test

The DS1307 RTC pins are connected to P0 (SCL-P0.6,SDA-P0.7).

EEprom Test

(A-Z) is written to EEPROM and then read it back. Same is transmitted on UART.
The AT24cxx Eeprom pins are connected to P0 (SCL-P0.6,SDA-P0.7).

Adc Test

Ultra Board has a Pot, LDR and a temperature sensor. ADC values from these sensors is read and transmitted on UART. Below table shows the sensor pin connection.

ADC DataBus(D0:D7)	A	B	C	ALE	START	EOC	OE
P2(P2_0:P2_7)	P1_0	P1_1	P1_2	P1_3	P1_4	P1_5	P1_6

Keypad Test

Below table shows the hex keypad Row-Col pin connection.

R1	R2	R3	R4	C1	C2	C3	C4
P2_0	P2_1	P2_2	P2_3	P2_4	P2_5	P2_6	P2_7

Downloads

• Download the design files and sample codes from this link
• Download the Keil software from this link

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