He just found these fabulous little chips in a component drawer and decided it was time to figure these guys out. Eventually, [Matt] stumbled across this awesome resource for 8051 programming.

Without external support circuitry, the theoretical maximum address range of all 8051 processors is 64 kbytes of program memory and 64 kbytes of data memory. However, software tools with an external ...

The intel 8051 series 8bit microcontroller, originally introduced in 1980, remains popular and has had perhaps the longest product life of all such devices. It has become the industry standard for ...