Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

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INSIDE THE

(^8051) Registers

‰Register are used to store information temporarily, while the information could be

¾a byte of data to be processed, or ¾an address pointing to the data to be fetched

‰The vast majority of 8051 register are 8-bit registers

¾There is only one data type, 8 bits