Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, Interfacing and System Design, 2nd Edition

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Programming in C

Chapter Outline

• Learn C programming for 8051
• Learn the 8051 memory constitution, constants, variables and data types, arrays structures and unions, pointers, loops and decisions, functions, library functions, in-line assembly, modules and programs, presuming that the reader has prior knowledge in C and has read standard textbooks in C
• Understand the C-compilers for 8051, program build process and development tools— GNU, SDCC and Keil
• Learn the programming in C by examples

10.1 PROGRAMMING IN C

A C program consists of the following parts:

1. preprocessor directives having include, define and typedef commands, global declarations and macros,
2. main function and
3. functions

10.1.1 Use of High-level Language Like‘C’

A high-level ...