Question Bank

Dept/Year/Sem: CSE/III/V Sub Code/ Sub Name: EC8691 – MP & MC

Staff Incharge : Mrs.C.Vidhya/AP/ECE Regulation : 2017
UNIT I
Introduction to 8086 – Microprocessor architecture – Addressing modes - Instruction set and
assembler directives – Assembly language programming – Modular Programming - Linking and
Relocation - Stacks - Procedures – Macros – Interrupts and interrupt service routines – Byte and
String Manipulation.
PART A
S.No. Question Year of Question
1. How Clock Signal Is Generated In 8086 Microprocessor? NOV – DEC 2012
Why is 8284 clock generator connected to 8086 CLK pin? APR – MAY 2013
2. State The Function Of Queue Status Lines QS0 And QS1 In 8086 NOV – DEC 2012
Microprocessor?
3. When 8086 processor is in minimum & maximum mode? APR – MAY 2013
4. Why is the 8086 memory divided into odd & even banks? NOV – DEC 2013
5. What do you mean by Segment Override Prefix? NOV – DEC 2013
6. List the flags in 8086 & state its function. APR – MAY 2014
List the flags of 8086. APR – MAY 2016
List the flags of 8086 microprocessor. NOV – DEC 2016
Draw the format of flag register. APR – MAY 2019
7. Identify the addressing modes in the following instructions. APR – MAY 2014
AND AL,BL SUB AL,24H MOV AL,[BP]
MOV CX, 1245H.
8. What is an assembler? NOV – DEC 2014
9. What is virtual addressing mode? NOV – DEC 2014
10. List the addressing modes of 8086. Give examples. APR – MAY 2015
List the various addressing modes of 8086. APR – MAY 2018
11. Write about the different types of interrupts supported in 8086. APR – MAY 2015
12. Calculate the physical address, when segment address is 1085H and NOV – DEC 2015
effective address is 4537H.
13. Show how the 2 byte INT instruction can be applied for debugging. NOV – DEC 2015
14. Define stack. APR – MAY 2016
15. List the segment registers of 8086. NOV – DEC 2016
16. The offset address of a data is (341B) H and the data segment register APR – MAY 2017
value is (123A) H. What is the physical address of the data?
17. Define stack register. APR – MAY 2017
18. List the modes of operation in 8086. NOV – DEC 2017
19. Define Macros. NOV – DEC 2017
What are Macros? APR – MAY 2019
20. Define Stack Pointer. APR – MAY 2018
21. What is the need for interrupts in microprocessor operation? NOV – DEC 2018
22. What are Byte and String Manipulations? NOV – DEC 2018
23. Given that [BX]=0158 [DI]=10A5 Displacement=1B57 [DS]=2100, APR – MAY 2019
Determine the effective address and physical address for the following
addressing modes. (a) Register Indirect (b) Register based Indexed

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 PART B & PART C
S.No. Question Year of Question
1. Discuss about the various assembler directives in 8086 microprocessor NOV – DEC 2012
programming. (8)
Explain the various assembler directives with suitable examples. (8) APR – MAY 2013
What do you mean by assembler directives? Explain SEGMENT, NOV – DEC 2013
TYPE, OFFSET with suitable examples. (8)
Describe program location control directives with suitable examples. APR – MAY 2014
(8) NOV – DEC 2014
Briefly explain the assembler directives of 8086. (8) APR – MAY 2015
Explain about the ASSUME, EQU, DD assembler directives. (8) NOV – DEC 2016
Write a short note about assembler directives. (4)
2. Write a program based on 8086 instruction set to compute the average NOV – DEC 2012
of n number of bytes stored in the memory. (8)
Discuss about the 8086 instruction used for transferring data between NOV – DEC 2012
registers, memory, stacks and I/O devices. (8)
Discuss the data movement and program control instructions of 8086. APR – MAY 2013
(10) NOV – DEC 2013
Explain the data transfer and logical group of 8086 instructions with
necessary examples. (8) APR – MAY 2014
Explain rotate and shift instructions with suitable examples.(8) NOV – DEC 2014
Briefly explain the arithmetic group of instruction available in 8086
microprocessor. (8) APR – MAY 2016
Explain the Data transfer, arithmetic and branch instructions with
examples. (9)
3. Write a program based on 8086 instruction set to multiply a constant NOV – DEC 2012
value to a sequence of data from 1 to n stored in memory. (8)
4. Explain the architecture of 8086 microprocessor. (8) NOV – DEC 2012
Explain the internal architecture of 8086 microprocessor with neat
diagram. (10) APR – MAY 2013
Describe the hardware architecture of 8086 microprocessor with neat NOV – DEC 2013
diagram. (10)
Describe the functions of Execution unit and Bus interface unit. (8) APR – MAY 2014
With a neat diagram explain the bus interfacing unit and execution unit NOV – DEC 2014
available in 8086 microprocessor. (16)
Explain briefly about the internal hardware architecture of 8086 APR – MAY 2015
microprocessor with a neat diagram. (10)
Explain the architecture of Intel 8086 with the help of a block diagram. NOV – DEC 2015
(8) APR – MAY 2016
Explain the internal hardware architecture of 8086 microprocessor with
neat diagrams. (12) APR – MAY 2017
Draw and explain the architecture of 8086 with neat diagram. (13) NOV – DEC 2017
Draw the architecture and explain the functional units of 8086. (13) APR – MAY 2018
Draw and Explain the architecture of 8086 with neat diagram. (13)
With neat block diagram, explain the architecture of 8086 APR – MAY 2019
microprocessor. (13)
5. Write an ALP to find the sum of numbers in the array of 10 elements. APR – MAY 2013
(6) APR – MAY 2016

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 Write an 8086 ALP to find the sum of numbers in an array of 10
elements. (7)
6. Write an 8086 ALP to arrange the elements in an array of 10 elements APR – MAY 2013
in ascending order. (8)
7. Discuss the different types of interrupts in 8086. (8) APR – MAY 2013
How the interrupt vector is handled in 8086? (8) NOV – DEC 2013
Write notes on Interrupt processing. (8) APR – MAY 2014
Explain briefly about Interrupt handling process in 8086. (8) APR – MAY 2015
Explain in detail about the interrupts and interrupt service routines of NOV – DEC 2015
8086. (16)
Define interrupts and their types. Write in detail about interrupt service APR – MAY 2016
routine. (16)
Describe the interrupts of 8086 and its type with service routine. (13) APR – MAY 2017
Describe the interrupts of 8086 and its type with service routine. (13)
Explain in detail about the interrupts and interrupt service routine of NOV – DEC 2017
8086. (13)
What is Interrupt and interrupt routine? Explain interrupt sequence for APR – MAY 2018
8086 microprocessor and interrupt pointers. (13) APR – MAY 2019
8. Write an 8086 ALP to separate odd and even numbers in a given array. NOV – DEC 2013
(8)
9. Write an 8086 ALP to check whether the given string is palindrome or NOV – DEC 2013
not. (8)
10. Develop a program to multiply two 16 bit numbers stored in P1 and APR – MAY 2014
P2. (8)
11. Develop a program to transfer 10 bytes of data from memory location APR – MAY 2014
starting from 2000H. (8)
12. Briefly explain the addressing modes of 8086 with example. (16) NOV – DEC 2014
Briefly describe about addressing modes of 8086. (8)
Explain the various addressing modes of 8086 microprocessor with NOV – DEC 2015
suitable examples. (16) NOV – DEC 2016
Explain the various addressing modes of 8086. (13)
NOV – DEC 2018
13. Write a assembly language program to convert BCD data to Binary APR – MAY 2015
data. (6)
14. For 8086 microprocessor, what are the instruction set and assembler NOV – DEC 2018
directives? (13)

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 UNIT II
8086 signals – Basic configurations – System bus timing –System design using 8086 – I/O
programming – Introduction to Multiprogramming – System Bus Structure – Multiprocessor
configurations – Coprocessor, Closely coupled and loosely Coupled configurations – Introduction to
advanced processors.
PART A
S.No. Question Year of Question
1. How Will Carry And Zero Flags Reflect The Result Of The Instruction NOV – DEC 2012
CMP BX, CX?
2. Give Any Four Miscellaneous Instructions In 16 Bit Microprocessor. NOV – DEC 2012
3. What are the 8086 instructions used for BCD arithmetic? APR – MAY 2013
4. What are the contents of AL & CY after the execution of the following APR – MAY 2013
segment?
MOV BL, D5H
RCL BL, 03
MOV AL, BL
5. What are the 8086 instructions used for ASCII arithmetic? NOV – DEC 2013
6. List the various string instructions available in 8086. NOV – DEC 2013
7. What are the advantages of memory mapped I/O over I/O mapped I/O? APR – MAY 2014
8. State the different data transfer schemes. APR – MAY 2014
9. What is a tri state bus? NOV – DEC 2014
10. Define bus. Why bus request & cycle stealing are required? APR – MAY 2015
11. Draw the read cycle timing diagram for minimum mode. APR – MAY 2015
12. What is multiprogramming? NOV – DEC 2015
What is meant by multiprogramming? APR – MAY 2018
13. Schematically show, how synchronization is made between 8086 & its NOV – DEC 2015
coprocessor.
14. Differentiate External verses Internal bus. APR – MAY 2016
15. Compare closely coupled and loosely coupled configurations. APR – MAY 2016
16. Define machine cycle. NOV – DEC 2016
17. Define bus. NOV – DEC 2016
Define system bus. NOV – DEC 2018
18. What is meant by multiprogramming? APR – MAY 2017
19. Write some example for advanced processors. APR – MAY 2017
NOV – DEC 2017
20. What is the need of LOCK signal? NOV – DEC 2017
21. List two differences between maximum mode and minimum mode of APR – MAY 2018
8086.
22. When is coprocessor used? NOV – DEC 2018
23. Write the advantages of loosely coupled system over tightly coupled APR – MAY 2019
system.
PART B & PART C
S.No. Question Year of Question
1. Describe the maximum mode signals, bus cycles and maximum mode NOV – DEC 2012
system configuration of 8086 microprocessor in detail. (16)
Write notes on Maximum mode in 8086. (8)

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 Discuss the maximum mode configuration of 8086 by with a neat APR – MAY 2014
diagram. Mention the functions of various signals. (16) (13) APR – MAY 2015
With neat block diagram, explain the architecture of 8086 in maximum APR – MAY 2018
mode configuration. Also explain the bus timing diagram for input and
output transfer on a maximum mode. (13) APR – MAY 2019
2. Discuss about the different data transfer schemes with examples. (8) NOV – DEC 2012
The data transfer rate of I/O device A is considerably less than that of
the microprocessor. Draw a flowchart of data transfer operation to be APR – MAY 2014
used. (8)
3. Explain the 8086 basic bus cycle timing diagram. (6) APR – MAY 2013
Draw and explain the timing diagram of write cycle in 8086 in NOV – DEC 2013
minimum mode. (8)
Explain in detail about the system bus timing of 8086. (16) APR – MAY 2016
Explain in detail about the system bus timing of 8086/8088. (16) NOV – DEC 2016
4. Describe how memory is accessed in 8086 with suitable diagram. (8) APR – MAY 2013
5. What are the differences between memory mapped IO and IO mapped NOV – DEC 2013
IO?
6. Draw and explain the minimum mode system configuration of 8086 NOV – DEC 2014
microprocessor. (8)
With neat diagram explain the minimum mode of operation of 8086. NOV – DEC 2015
(16)
7. Briefly explain the architectural advancements of microprocessors. (8) NOV – DEC 2014
8. Compare closely coupled configuration with loosely coupled APR – MAY 2015
configuration. (8)
Distinguish between closely coupled and loosely coupled NOV – DEC 2015
multiprocessor configurations. (13) NOV – DEC 2018
Define closely coupled system. Explain the schemes used for NOV – DEC 2016
establishing priority. (16) APR – MAY 2017
Discuss about the multiprocessor configuration of 8086. (16) (13) APR – MAY 2018
Explain the closely looped configuration with neat diagram. (13)
Explain the loosely coupled configuration with neat diagram.(13) NOV - DEC 2017
9. Write an 8086 ALP to check whether a given string is palindrome or APR – MAY 2015
not. (8)
10. Explain the following: APR – MAY 2016
(i) Multiprocessor system. (4)
(ii) Coprocessor (4)
(iii) Multiprogramming (4)
11. Explain the system bus structure of 8086. Draw the timing diagram for APR – MAY 2017
interrupt acknowledgement cycle. (13)
Explain the system bus structure of 8086. Draw the timing diagram for NOV - DEC 2017
interrupt acknowledgement cycle. (13)
What do you understand from system bus structure? Explain. (13) NOV – DEC 2018

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 UNIT III
Memory Interfacing and I/O interfacing - Parallel communication interface – Serial
communication interface – D/A and A/D Interface - Timer – Keyboard /display controller –
Interrupt controller – DMA controller – Programming and applications Case studies:
Traffic Light control, LED display , LCD display, Keyboard display interface and Alarm
Controller
PART A
1. List the Four Display Modes of 8279 Keyboard / Display NOV – DEC 2012
Controller.
2. What are the Enhanced Features of 8254 Programmable Timer NOV – DEC 2012
Compared To 8253?
3. State the applications of programmable interval timer. APR – MAY 2013
List the applications of Programmable Interval Timer. NOV – DEC 2013
4. What is key debouncing? What are the methods to detect the APR – MAY 2014
debouncing?
What is key debouncing? NOV – DEC 2013
APR – MAY 2016
5. State the signals that govern the operation of the printer. APR – MAY 2014
6. What is direct memory access? NOV – DEC 2014
How DMA is initiated? NOV – DEC 2016
7. Give the various modes and applications of 8254 timer. APR – MAY 2015
Give the various modes of 8254 timer. APR – MAY 2018
8. Draw the block diagram of alarm controller with 8086 as APR – MAY 2015
processor.
9. List the operating modes of 8255 & 8237. NOV – DEC 2015
10. What frequency transmit clock is required by 8251 in order for NOV – DEC 2015
it to transmit data at 4800 baud with a band rate factor of 16?
11. List the advantages and disadvantages of parallel APR – MAY 2016
communication over serial communication.
12. What is the drawback of memory mapped IO? NOV – DEC 2016
13. Draw the format of read back command register of 8254. APR – MAY 2017
14. Write a 16 bit delay program in 8086. APR – MAY 2017
15. How to set 8051 in Idle mode. NOV – DEC 2017
16. Illustrate the DJNZ instruction. NOV – DEC 2017
17. Write a 16 bit delay program in 8086. APR – MAY 2018
18. Why is memory interfacing required? NOV – DEC 2018
19. What are the differences between LED display and LCD NOV – DEC 2018
display?
PART B & PART C
1. With a neat sketch, explain the microprocessor based traffic NOV – DEC 2012
light control system. (16)
Draw and explain the 8086 based traffic light control system in APR – MAY 2013
detail. (16)
With a complete example, explain the design of Traffic Light APR – MAY 2014
Controller using Microcontroller and Microprocessor. (16)
Draw the block diagram of traffic light control system using APR – MAY 2015
8086. (8)

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 Write the algorithm and ALP for traffic light control system. (8) APR – MAY 2015
Draw the block diagram of traffic light control system using APR – MAY 2018
8086. Write the algorithm and ALP for traffic light control
system. (15)
2. Explain the programming and operating modes of 8255 PPI in NOV – DEC 2012
detail. (16)
With neat block diagram explain the 8255 Programmable APR – MAY 2013
Peripheral Interface and its operating modes. (16)
With neat block diagram explain the 8255 programmable NOV – DEC 2013
peripheral interface with necessary examples. (16)
Explain the function of Programmable Peripheral Interface – APR – MAY 2014
Intel 8255, (8)
Draw and explain the functional diagram of parallel APR – MAY 2017
communication interfacing chip. (13)
3. Explain the 8279 Keyboard/Display controller with neat block APR – MAY 2013
diagram. (16)
With a neat block diagram explain the key board and display NOV – DEC 2014
controller IC 8279. (16)
Draw and explain the functional diagram of keyboard and NOV – DEC 2017
display controller. (13)
4. Draw and explain the block diagram of A to D converter. (8) NOV – DEC 2013
Draw the block diagram to interface an ADC with a APR – MAY 2014
microprocessor and explain its working. (8)
Briefly explain the method of interfacing A to D converter with NOV – DEC 2014
microcontroller. (8)
Explain how D/A and A/D interfacing done with 8086 with an APR – MAY 2015
application. (10)
With diagram, explain the operation of R-2R method of D/A NOV – DEC 2012
converter. (8)
Explain the procedure for interfacing D/A and A/D converter NOV – DEC 2016
circuit. (16)
How are D/A and A/D interface used? Explain. (13) NOV – DEC 2018
5. Write short notes on Programmable Interval Timer 8253 and APR – MAY 2014
8254. (8)
With a neat block diagram explain programmable interval IC NOV – DEC 2014
8253. (8)
6. What is DMA? Explain the DMA based data transfer using APR – MAY 2015
DMA controller. (6)
APR – MAY 2016
Explain in detail about DMA controller with its diagram. (16)
Explain in detail about DMA controller. (16), (13) NOV – DEC 2016
APR – MAY 2018
Explain the need of DMA controller with its functional APR – MAY 2017
diagram. (13)
7. Draw the block diagram and explain the operations of 8251 NOV – DEC 2015
serial communication interface. (16)
Draw and explain the functional diagram of 8251. (13) NOV – DEC 2017
Draw the block diagram and explain the operations of USART. APR – MAY 2018
(13)

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8. Draw the block diagram of programmable interrupt controller NOV – DEC 2015
and explain its operations. (16)
9. Draw and explain the block diagram of alarm controller. (16), APR – MAY 2016
(15) APR – MAY 2018
10. Develop a 8086 based system to display the word HELLO for APR – MAY 2017
every 2 ms in the common cathode seven segment LED display
and check how many times the word displayed for one hour.
(13)
11. Develop a 8086 based system with 128 RAM and 4K ROM to NOV – DEC 2017
display the word HAPPY for every 2ms in the common anode
seven segment LED display. Explain the delay timings. (15)
12. What are Interrupt controller and DMA controller? Explain. NOV – DEC 2018
(13)

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 UNIT IV
Architecture of 8051 – Special Function Registers (SFRs) - I/O Pins Ports and Circuits -
Instruction set - Addressing modes - Assembly language programming.
PART A
1. Specify The Size Of Memory Systems Used In 8051 NOV – DEC 2012
Microcontroller.
2. Mention the Different Operand Types Used In 8051 NOV – DEC 2012
Microcontroller.
What are the different ways of operand addressing in 8051? APR – MAY 2016
What are the addressing modes for a Microcontroller? NOV – DEC 2018
3. What happens in power down mode of 8051 microcontroller? APR – MAY 2013
4. How the selection of particular register bank is done in 8051? APR – MAY 2013
How do you select the register bank in 8051 microcontroller? APR – MAY 2015
Mention the number of register banks and their addresses in NOV – DEC 2015
8051.
5. How do you place a specific value in the DPTR register? NOV – DEC 2013
6. Which of the 8051 ports need pull up registers to functions as NOV – DEC 2013
an I/O port?
Why it is necessary to have external pull up for port 0 in 8051? NOV – DEC 2014
7. How does the processor 8051 know whether on chip ROM or APR – MAY 2014
External program memory is used?
8. What is the difference between AJMP & LJMP instruction? APR – MAY 2014
9. List the SFRs involved in interrupt programming of 8051. NOV – DEC 2014
10. Draw the diagram for processor status word APR – MAY 2015
11. What is the Jump range? NOV – DEC 2015
12. Draw the pin diagram of 8051. NOV – DEC 2016
13. What is the significance of EA pin? NOV – DEC 2016
14. Which port used as multifunction port? List the signals. APR – MAY 2017
15. Illustrate the CJNE instruction. APR – MAY 2017
16. How to set 8051 in idle mode? NOV – DEC 2017
17. Illustrate the DJNZ instruction. NOV – DEC 2017
18. Draw the pin diagram of 8051. APR – MAY 2018
19. What are bit manipulation instructions? Give two examples. APR – MAY 2018
20. How Microcontroller is different from Microprocessor? NOV – DEC 2018
PART B & PART C
1. With example, explain the arithmetic and branching instructions NOV – DEC 2012
of 8051 microcontroller. (8)
Briefly explain the data transfer instructions available in 8051 NOV – DEC 2014
microcontroller. (8)
Explain about the Arithmetic and Control instruction set in APR – MAY 2015
8051. (10)
2. Explain the parallel port architecture of 8051 microcontroller. NOV – DEC 2012
(8)
Enumerate about the ports available in 8051 microcontroller. NOV – DEC 2013
(8)
Discuss the ports and its circuits of 8051. (13) NOV – DEC 2017

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 How input and output pins and ports help in a circuit of a NOV – DEC 2018
Microcontroller? (13)
3. Discuss briefly the various registers in 8051 microcontroller. APR – MAY 2013
(6)
Explain in detail about the special function registers in 8051. NOV – DEC 2015
(8) NOV – DEC 2018
Write the available special function registers in 8051. Explain
each register with its format and functions. (13) APR – MAY 2017
4. Draw the pin diagram of 8051 microcontroller and explain the APR – MAY 2013
functions of each pin. (10)
Describe the functions of the following signals in 8051. RST, NOV – DEC 2015
EA, PSEN and ALE. (8)
5. Write an ALP for 8051 to find the largest of three numbers. (8) APR – MAY 2014
6. Explain in detail the memory organization of 8051 NOV – DEC 2014
microcontroller. (16)
7. Explain the architecture of 8051 microcontroller with neat APR – MAY 2015
diagram. (8)
Explain the architecture of 8051 microcontroller with neat APR – MAY 2014
diagram. (10)
Explain the architecture of 8051 with its diagram. (16) APR – MAY 2016
Explain in detail about the architecture of 8051 microcontroller NOV – DEC 2016
with a neat diagram. (16)
Describe the architecture of 8051 with neat diagram. (13) NOV – DEC 2017
APR – MAY 2018
8. Briefly explain about addressing modes of 8051. (8) NOV – DEC 2015
Discuss the types of addressing mode with suitable example in APR – MAY 2017
8051. (8) (13) APR – MAY 2018
9. Give PSW of 8051 and the use of each bit in PSW. (8) NOV – DEC 2015
10. Write a program based on 8051 instruction set to pack array of NOV – DEC 2012
unpacked BCD digits. (8)
11. Write an 8051 ALP to multiply the given number 48H and 30H. APR – MAY 2017
(5)

UNIT V

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Programming 8051 Timers - Serial Port Programming - Interrupts Programming – LCD &
Keyboard Interfacing - ADC, DAC & Sensor Interfacing - External Memory Interface-
Stepper Motor and Waveform generation.
PART A
1. Write about the design steps involved in using microcontroller APR – MAY 2014
for stepper motor.
2. State the significance of using microprocessors in interfacing APR – MAY 2014
traffic light control.
3. Differentiate between timers & counters. Draw the diagram of APR – MAY 2015
TCON in 8051.
4. Which register is used for serial programming in 8051? APR – MAY 2015
Illustrate it.
5. Mention the features of serial port in mode 0. NOV – DEC 2015
6. How is A/D converter interfaced with 8051? NOV – DEC 2015
7. Compare polling and interrupt. APR – MAY 2016
8. Define baud rate of 8051. APR – MAY 2016
9. List the modes of timer in 8051. NOV – DEC 2016
10. State how baud rate is calculated for serial data transfer in mode NOV – DEC 2016
1.
11. List the 8051 interrupts with its priority. APR – MAY 2017
Give the priority level of the interrupt sources in 8051. NOV – DEC 2017
APR – MAY 2018
12. What are the types of sensors used for interfacing? APR – MAY 2017
Give some examples of sensors and state its uses. APR – MAY 2018
NOV – DEC 2017
13. How to program 8051 timers? NOV – DEC 2018
14. What are the types of ADC? NOV – DEC 2018
PART B & PART C
1. Explain the operation of serial port with associated register. (8) NOV – DEC 2012
Write shortly on the various operating modes for serial port of APR – MAY 2013
8051 microcontroller. (6)
Describe the serial interface with 8051 microcontroller. (8) APR – MAY 2014
Explain 8051 serial port programming with examples. (16) APR – MAY 2016
Illustrate the serial communication in 8051, with its special NOV – DEC 2017
function register.(13)
Write and explain. What is known as Serial Port programming? NOV – DEC 2018
(13)
2. Describe in detail the microcontroller based system design with NOV – DEC 2012
an example. (16)
3. Draw the diagram to interface a stepper motor with an 8051 APR – MAY 2013
microcontroller and explain. Also write an 8051 ALP to run the
stepper motor in both forward and reverse direction with a
delay. (16)
Explain the stepper motor control using 8051 microcontroller. NOV – DEC 2014
(8)
Draw the diagram to interface a stepper motor with 8051 APR – MAY 2015
microcontroller and explain. Write a 8051 ALP to run stepper APR – MAY 2016
motor in both forward and reverse direction with delay. (16) APR – MAY 2018

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 (13) NOV – DEC 2016
Draw the schematic for interfacing a stepper motor with 8051 NOV – DEC 2015
microcontroller and write 8051 ALP for changing speed and NOV – DEC 2013
direction of motor. (16)
Demonstrate the interfacing of the stepper motor with 8051 and APR – MAY 2017
explain its interfacing diagram and develop program to rotate
the motor in clockwise direction. (13)
4. Explain the interfacing of 4*4 matrix keyboard to the 8051 APR – MAY 2013
microcontroller with neat diagram. (10)
5. Explain the TMOD function register and its timer modes of NOV – DEC 2013
operations. (6)
Describe the different modes of operation of timers/counters in APR – MAY 2015
8051 with its associated register. (10) (13) APR – MAY 2018
Describe the different modes of operation of timers/counters in NOV – DEC 2016
8051 microcontroller. (16)
6. How does one interface a 16*2 LCD display using 8051 APR – MAY 2015
microcontroller? (6)
7. With a neat diagram explain how 4*4 keypad is interfaced with NOV – DEC 2015
8051 microcontroller and write ALP for keypad scanning. (16)
8. Write a program for generation of uni polar square waveform of APR – MAY 2017
1KHz frequency using Timer 0 of 8051 in mode 0. Consider the
system frequency as 12MHz. (13)
9. Develop 8051 based system design having 8Kbyte RAM to APR – MAY 2017
generate the triangular wave using DAC. (13)
10. Interface the ADC converter with 8051 and explain with neat NOV – DEC 2017
diagram. (7)
11. Write the ALP to execute the ADC conversion (6) NOV – DEC 2017
12. Design a circuit to generate 12MHz frequency for a system. NOV – DEC 2017
Write a program for generation of unipolar square waveform of
1KHz frequency using Timer 0 of 8051 in mode 0. (15)
13. What are sensor interfacing and external memory interfacing? NOV – DEC 2018
Explain. (13)

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