Digital Electronics - The 8051 Microcontroller - Discussion

Discussion Forum : The 8051 Microcontroller - General Questions (Q.No. 20)
20.
The total external data memory that can be interfaced to the 8051 is:
32K
64K
128K
256K
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
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Bhai said:   8 years ago
All options are wrong. It can access only 60K of memory externally, because it internally have 4K of ROM.

Suresh.p.v said:   8 years ago
64KB & PC=16-Bit.

Ganesh Raveendran said:   1 decade ago
Program counter(PC) size = 16 bit in binary.

=> can store addresses up to 2^16 = 65536 (total memory space) in decimal.

i.e. from 0 to 65535 in decimal and 0000h to FFFFh in hex.

1 kb=1024 bytes.

Converting 65536 bytes to Kilo bytes.
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PC can store 65536 'bytes' of memory space = 65536/1024 = 64K.

Navil Smith said:   1 decade ago
As the number of address lines of 8051 is 16 therefore
total memory that can b interfaced=(2^16=65536) i.e. 64K

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