Revision as of 10:50, 19 August 2016

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 you're embedded development. What are you waiting for?

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

USB Communication with CP2102
Eight 5mm LEDs
Eight Switches in DIP package
LCD 16x2
Four Seven Segment Displays
ADC 0808 with 555 timer for sampling frequency
POT for ADC
Light Sensor(LDR).
Temperature sensor(LM35).
Two Relays for Switching AC devices.
4x4 Keypad.
L293D Motor Driver for DC and Stepper Motors.
DS1307 based Real Time Clock.
AT2404 EEPROM.
USB cable.
Power Adapter
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 MPlabx IDE and x8 compiler.
Check this tutorial for setting up the project to generate the .hex file.
Check this tutorial for Uploading Hex File Using Pickit2.
Check this tutorial for Uploading Hex File Using Ds30 Bootloader.

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
PB_0	PB_1	PB_2	PD_0	PD_1	PD_2	PD_3	PD_4	PD_5	PD_6	PD_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
PB_0	PB_1	PB_2	P_NC	P_NC	P_NC	P_NC	PD_4	PD_5	PD_6	PD_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
PB_0	PB_1	PB_2	PB_3	PD_0	PD_1	PD_2	PD_3	PD_4	PD_5	PD_6	PD_7

RTC Test

The DS1307 RTC module will be connected I2C(SCL-RC.3,SDA-RC.4) pins as shown in below image.

EEprom Test

(A-Z) is wriiten to eeprom and then read it back. Same is transmitted on UART.

Adc Test

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

Sensor	Adc Channel	Port Pin
Temperature	AN0	RA0
POT	AN1	RA1
LDR	AN2	RA2

Keypad Test

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

R1	R2	R3	R4	C1	C2	C3	C4
PD_0	PD_1	PD_2	PD_3	PD_4	PD_5	PD_6	PD_7

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [[Category:8051_tutorials]]
-The Explore Ultra PIC Kit comes with all the things required, not just for this experiment but for the entire series. And even if you think of migrating to PIC or Arduino, you'll have breakout boards that fit on to this, hence we believe it is a great investment for learning hands on Embedded Systems. 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 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.
 [[File:0Ultra one.PNG]]
-The latest version of Ultra PIC dev kit is modular  in both hardware and software.  The kit comprises of the Ultra One Base Board and PIC breakout board as the main components.
+  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 you're embedded development. What are you waiting for?
-The PIC breakout board comes with 16F877A, however  you may use any other 40 pin PIC MCUs like the 18F4550.  The 16F877A comes with a UART bootloader hence no external programmer is required.
-The Ultra One baseboard can additionally be used with  several AVR, 8051 and Arduino Microcontrollers, we beleive this kit to is a solid gate way to Embedded Systems. This is not it, even the USB to Serial Convertor on board is moduler, you can take it off and use it any of the other projects. 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 newer version also supports 128x64 Graphics display as well as 128x64 OLED display. 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 you're embedded development. What are you waiting for?
 Kit Contents:
 Explore ULTRA PIC Development Board with following Modules, ICs and Interfaces:
-#DS1307 RTC.
+#USB Communication with CP2102
-#24C16 EEPROM
+#Eight 5mm LEDs
-#Micro SD
+#Eight Switches in DIP package
+#LCD 16x2
 #Four Seven Segment Displays
-#Eight  LEDs
+#ADC 0808 with 555 timer for sampling frequency
-#4 x 4 Keypad
+#POT for ADC
-#Temperature Sensor LM35
+#Light Sensor(LDR).
-#LDR
+#Temperature sensor(LM35).
-#Buzzer
+#Two Relays for Switching AC devices.
-#L293D Motor Driver.
+#4x4 Keypad.
-#Two Relays.
+#L293D Motor Driver for DC and Stepper Motors.
-#Eight DIP switches.
+#DS1307 based Real Time Clock.
-#Breakout for 20X4 character LCD.
+#AT2404 EEPROM.
-#Breakout for 128X64 LCD.
+#USB cable.
-#Breakout for OLED.
+#Power Adapter
-#Breakout for Zigbee.
+#Single wire female connectors.
+#Supported Controllers
+{| class="table table-striped table-hover table-condensed table-bordered"
+|-class="info"
+!Controller || Flashing Software || External Programmer || Comments
+|-
+|At89s52|| XploreFlash/ProgIsp  || UsbAsp Programmer ||IC is cheap and easily available but needs external programmer
+|-class="active"
+|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.
+|-class="active"
+|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
+|}<br><br>
 =Driver Installation=

Difference between revisions of "8051 Development Board Setup"