Intel MCS-48

Intel 8048 microcontroller
The 8749 with UV EPROM
USSR KM1816BE48, an Intel 8748 clone.
An Intel 8049 microcontroller, as used in a HP3478A Multimeter. This chip was manufactured in the 48th week 1990.

The MCS-48 microcontroller (µC) series, Intel's first microcontroller, was originally released in 1976. Its first members were 8048, 8035 and 8748. Initially this family was produced using NMOS-technology, in the early 1980s it became available in CMOS-technology. It was still manufactured into the 1990s to support older designs that still used it.

The MCS-48 series has a Modified Harvard architecture, with internal or external program ROM and 64–256 bytes of internal (on-chip) RAM. The I/O is mapped into its own address space, separate from programs and data. The 8048 is probably the most prominent member of Intel's MCS-48 family of microcontrollers.

Though the MCS-48 series was eventually replaced by the very popular MCS-51 series, even at around year 2000 it remained quite popular, due to its low cost, wide availability, memory efficient one-byte instruction set, and mature development tools. Because of this it is much used in high-volume consumer electronics devices such as TV sets, TV remotes, toys, and other gadgets where cost-cutting is essential.

Variants

The 8049 has 2 KB of masked ROM (the 8748 and 8749 had EPROM) that can be replaced with a 4 KB external ROM, as well as 128 bytes of RAM and 27 I/O ports. The µC's oscillator block divides the incoming clock into 15 internal phases, thus with its 11 MHz max. crystal one gets 0.73 MIPS (of one-clock instructions). Some 70% of instructions are single byte/cycle ones, but 30% need two cycles and/or two bytes, so the raw performance would be closer to 0.5 MIPS.

Philips Semiconductors (now NXP) owned a license to produce this series and developed their MAB8400-family based on this architecture. These were the first microcontrollers with an integrated I²C-interface and were used in the first Philips (Magnavox in the US) Compact Disc players (e.g. the CD-100).[1]

Another variant, the ROM-less 8035, was used in Nintendo's arcade game Donkey Kong. Although not being a typical application for a microcontroller, its purpose was to generate the background music of the game.

The Intel 8748 has on-chip clock oscillator, 2× 8-bit timers, 27× I/O ports, 64 bytes of RAM and 1 KB of EPROM. A version with 2 KB EPROM and 128 bytes RAM was also available under the 8749 number.

Device Internal Memory Remarks
8020 1K × 8 ROM 64 × 8 RAM Subset of 8048, 20 pins, only 13 I/O lines
8021 1K × 8 ROM 64 × 8 RAM Subset of 8048, 28 pins, 21 I/O lines
8022 2K × 8 ROM 64 × 8 RAM Subset of 8048, A/D-converter
8035 none 64 × 8 RAM
8039 none 128 × 8 RAM
8040 none 256 × 8 RAM
8048 1K × 8 ROM 64 × 8 RAM
8049 2K × 8 ROM 128 × 8 RAM
8050 ext. ROM socket 256 × 8 RAM
8748 1K × 8 EPROM 64 × 8 RAM
8749 2K × 8 EPROM 128 × 8 RAM
8648 1K × 8 OTP EPROM 64 × 8 RAM Factory OTP EPROM
Device Internal Memory Remarks
8041 1K × 8 ROM 64 × 8 RAM Universal Peripheral Interface (UPI)
8041AH 1K × 8 ROM 128 × 8 RAM UPI
8741A 1K × 8 EPROM 64 × 8 RAM UPI, EPROM version of 8041
8741AH 1K × 8 OTP EPROM 128 × 8 RAM UPI, OTP EPROM version of 8041AH
8042AH 2K × 8 ROM 256 × 8 RAM UPI
8742 2K × 8 EPROM 128 × 8 RAM UPI, EPROM version
8742AH 2K × 8 OTP EPROM 256 × 8 RAM UPI, OTP EPROM version of 8042AH

Uses

The 8048 was used in the Magnavox Odyssey² video game console, the Korg Trident series , the Korg Poly-61,[2] Roland Jupiter-4 and Roland ProMars[3] analog synthesizers.

The original IBM PC keyboard used an 8048 as its internal microcontroller.[4] The PC AT replaced the PC's Intel 8255 peripheral interface chip at I/O port addresses 0x60-63 with an 8042 accessible through port addresses 0x60 and 0x64.[5] As well as managing the keyboard interface the 8042 controlled the A20 line of the AT's Intel 80286 CPU, and could be commanded by software to reset the 80286 (unlike the 80386 and later processors, the 80286 had no way of switching from protected mode back to real mode except by being reset). Later PC compatibles integrate the 8042's functions into their super I/O devices.

Literature

MCS-48
UPI-41

See also

External links

References

  1. Datasheet (pdf) Philips MAB8400-Family
  2. "Korg Poly-61 Service Manual" (PDF).
  3. Gordon Reid (November 2004). "The History Of Roland, Part 1: 1930–1978". The History Of Roland. Sound On Sound Magazine. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  4. "Section 4: Keyboard", Technical Reference: Personal Computer, Personal Computer Hardware Reference Library (Revised ed.), IBM, April 1984
  5. "Section 1: System Board", Technical Reference: Personal Computer AT, Personal Computer Hardware Reference Library, IBM, September 1985

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