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There are fellow programmers that has developed program of Microcontroller inquire about this. It is about the next part of programming for connecting through Serial Port. Either of Visual Basic or C, there are many people inquired about how to control with Microcontroller 8051 that is the family of Microcontroller that has been populating.

Anywhere, I do the experimental board by using circuit of the basic Microcontroller in order to carry out this content. Generally, in the side of programming with Microcontroller, I will mention the part of programming to connect Serial Port, but there will be programming to control Timer also. Why use Timer? Because we will create Baud Rate, after that we will go to programming to get and send data through Serial Port of Microcontroller

Managing to Timer’s working

TCON (Time Control Register) and TMOD (Time Mode Register) 

We take the both to do for controlling Timer’s working in order to use as looping to measure time taken of Baud Rate, is to set value in TMOD such as TMOD=00100000B.  Here, we use getting and sending data 11 bit, will have 8 data bit, Start bit, Stop bit, Custom data bit. All we will set Timer to occur interrupt that we will set at IE (Interrupt Enable Register), setting to be zero every bit, for Baud rate of getting and sending data, will use the rate of Timer Overflow together with the value of SMOD(Serial Mode Register). For the value that will set for Timer in order to create the rate of getting and sending of Serial Port in Microcontroller can use the below table.

The table of setting value for Timer in order to use for Baud Rate

     Programming for setting value of working of Timer

We may conclude programming for setting of Timer such as Baud Rate of Serial port=9600 bit/sec 

MOV TMOD,#00100000B  ; setting value in TMOD Register to begin the new value automatically.    

MOV IE,#00000000B   ; setting value not Timer Interrupt

MOV TL1,#FDH          ;setting Baud Rate 9600 bit/sec

MOV TH1,#FDH        

SETB TR1                   ; command Timer 1 to work

Programming to connect with Serial Port 

Serial Port Control Register named SCON

Doing as controller of process of getting and sending of Serial Port in Microcontroller that will be what mode for getting data and sending data. This SCON, will manage, but we have to set the function to SCON before like the details in the following,

The table of showing the component of SCON

Serial Port Buffer Register named SBUF 

It is keeper of data for getting or sending data through Serial Port in Microcontroller. If we will write program to get data, we have to move data in Buffer to use.

Such as MOV A, SBUF, etc.

If we will send data out to Serial Port in Microcontroller, we have to move data to Buffer the same. 

Such as MOV SBUF,A or MOV SBUF,#31H, etc.

 Programming to get data

 JNB RI,$            ; compare condition until be real when Buffer Receive already.

CLR RI               ; clear value of RI(Receive Interrupt) bit in SCON Register 

MOV A,SBUF  ; keep value from Buffer to keep in Register A

Programming to send data

MOV SBUF,#43H  ; get ค่าแอสกี้=43H to keep at Buffer in sending data through Serial Port

JNB TI,$              ;  compare condition as real when Buffer Send alreay

CLR TI                ; clear value of TI(Transmit Interrupt) bit in SCON Register

From the content I mention above, I think we may understand and can use to program to connect Serial Port of Microcontroller by yourself. For more understanding, I have the project about this content.

Microcontroller connecting with PC as RS-232 through Serial Port

The learning outcome of this article

1) To be the fundamental in programming for controlling the Microcontroller Serial Port’s working.

2) To know Register for controlling Timer and Serial Port.

3) Can apply program Microcontroller connecting with program on PC through Serial Port

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