Learning C programming of 8051

[garvind25]

Hi,

Can anyone point me to a book/website/ YouTube resource for learning C programming of 8051. I searched the net; there are several websites with C tutorials; I don’t know which is good to follow. Previously I had done assembly language programming of 8051; I don’t know anything in embedded C. BTW I am looking for anything other than Mazidi book - it has both assembly and C programming in it; this confuses me.

Any pointers would be thankfully accepted.

Regards,
Arvind Gupta

 

[KlausST]

Hi,

Sorry I can´t give you an answer to your question.

But I think the 8051 are outdated now - although still widely used.
But there are more modern microcontroller, cheaper, faster, more periferals, lees power consumption ...

I mean: When you now start to learn new things, then why not do this with modern hardware.

Microcip AVR or PIC, STM and many more...

Klaus

 

[garvind25]

OK got your view point. Basically I wanted to learn C programming of ARM. But since I dont know embedded C, I thought I will first learn it on 8051 and then proceed with learning ARM programming. Since you suggest that I should learn with modern uCs, do you suppose one can straight away learn C on ARM? If so, can you point me to a book/ web resource to start doing so?

Thanks,
Arvind Gupta.

 

[KlausST]

Hi,

my personal opinion:
If you want to learn C for ARM, then I see no need to learn other microcontroller first.


Klaus

 

[std_match]

The 8051 and the small PIC processors have an architecture that is very bad for C.
The best compilers for those processors make a good job to hide some of the problems, but if the goal is to learn C you should use a processor that is supported by the gcc compiler (ARM is one of them).

 

[RAHUL_KUMAR]

Hi,

Can anyone point me to a book/website/ YouTube resource for learning C programming of 8051. I searched the net; there are several websites with C tutorials; I don’t know which is good to follow. Previously I had done assembly language programming of 8051; I don’t know anything in embedded C. BTW I am looking for anything other than Mazidi book - it has both assembly and C programming in it; this confuses me.

Any pointers would be thankfully accepted.

Regards,
Arvind Gupta

as you said ,u have done assembly programming in 8051 , so u might not have any problem in logic and architecture of microcontroller,. now you simply need to put your logic in c language ,. (there is nothing different so called "embedded c" than regular C language) , just know the syntax , read a c language book ,any book which can clear your basic funda , after then you can go through few or more examples 8051 programing in C from internet ,.i think nothing more than this required to learn what u want..