In this tutorial, we are going to discuss the interfacing of external ADC0808/9 with 8051.
We will be reading the ADC values from channel Zero and transmitted on UART at 9600 baudrate. ADC.gif


ADC-0808/9

8051 does not have the inbuilt ADC and we will be using the external 8-bit ADC ie. ADC0808/ADC0809. ADC0809 is an 8-bit Successive Approximation ADC which is multiplexed among 8 input pins.
The A/D module has high and low-voltage reference input that can be set using the pins Vref+ and Vref- as shown in the below image. With 5v as the Vref+ and 0v as Vref- the resolution of ADC0809 can be determined as below: $$resolution of ADC = ((Vref+) - (Vref-))/(2^{8}-1) = 5/255 =0.0196 = 19.6mv$$ ADC0809.png

The below table shows the ADC input pins multiplexed with other GPIO pins.
The ADC pin can be enabled by configuring the corresponding ACON1 register.
When the ADC function is selected for a pin ,then other Digital signals are disconnected from the ADC input pins.

Adc Channel Pic16f877a Pin Pin Function
0 RA0 AN0
1 RA1 AN1
2 RA2 AN2/VREF-
3 RA3 AN3/VREF+
4 RA5 AN4
2 RE0 AN5
3 RE1 AN6
4 RE2 AN7


ADC Registers

The below table shows the registers associated with PIC16F877A ADC.

Register Description
ADCON0 Used to Turn ON the ADC, Select the Sampling Freq and also Start the conversion.
ADCON1 Used to configure the gpio pins for ADC
ADRESH Holds the higher byte of ADC result
ADRESL Holds the lower byte of ADC result



Now lets see how to configure the individual registers for UART communication.

ADCON0
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
ADCS1 ADCS0 CHS2 CHS1 CHS0 GO/DONE ADON

ADCS2-ADCS0:A/D Conversion Clock Select bits Adc Freq Select.png

CHS2-CHS0:Analog Channel Select bits
000 = Channel 0 (AN0)
001 = Channel 1 (AN1)
010 = Channel 2 (AN2)
011 = Channel 3 (AN3)
100 = Channel 4 (AN4)
101 = Channel 5 (AN5)
110 = Channel 6 (AN6)
111 = Channel 7 (AN7)

GO/DONE: A/D Conversion Status bit
When ADON = 1:
1 = A/D conversion in progress (setting this bit starts the A/D conversion which is automatically cleared by hardware when the A/D conversion is complete)
0 = A/D conversion not in progress

ADON: A/D On bit
1 = A/D converter module is powered up
0 = A/D converter module is shut-off and consumes no operating current


ADCON1
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
ADFM ADCS2 PCFG3 PCFG2 PCFG1 PCFG0

ADFM: A/D Result Format Select bit
1 = Right justified. Six (6) Most Significant bits of ADRESH are read as ‘0’.
0 = Left justified. Six (6) Least Significant bits of ADRESL are read as ‘0’. Adc Result Justification.png

ADCS2: A/D Conversion Clock Select bit
Check ADCS1:ADCS0 of ADCON0 register.

PCFG3-PCFG0: A/D Port Configuration Control bits Adc pin config.png

PicAdcBlockDiagram.png

Hardware Connections

ADCExample bb.png

Code

Below is the sample code to read the ADC value of channel0 and send it on UART at 9600 baud rate.

Using ExploreEmbedded Libraries

Pic16f877aADC01.PNG

Downloads

Download the complete project folder from the below link:
Hardware design Files and Code Library


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