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8052-Basic Microcontrollers

Files and links relating to the 8052-Basic and similar 8051-family microcontrollers and how to use them.

Books

The Microcontroller Idea Book: Circuits, Programs, & Applications featuring the 8052-BASIC Microcontroller by Jan Axelson. Now available as a free PDF.

BASIC-52 Programming
Complete reference to the BASIC-52 programming language.
Includes many program examples and handy back-cover index.
$20 postpaid
Systronix
Salt Lake City, UT

BASIC-52 User's Manual (Intel #270010-004) $15
The original reference to the BASIC-52 programming language.
Includes some circuit schematics. Out of print.

PC Boards

The PC boards from these vendors typically contain an 8052-BASIC chip (or an 8032 with Basic-52 in EPROM) plus RAM, EPROM, EEPROM, or battery-backed RAM, and I/O circuits.

Antona Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
8052-Basic boards, including one with an STD bus

Basicon, Inc.
Beaverton, OR

Binary Technology
P.O. Box 541
Carlisle, MA 01741
Phone: 508-369-9556
Fax: 508-369-9549

Blue Earth Research
The Micro-440e and -485 are tiny surface-mount boards
with an enhanced Basic-52 and a monitor program in ROM.
Mankato MN

Gary Drummund has a proto board available on his Embedded Controllers page.

Grifo (Italy)
Many 8051-family boards, including high-speed Dallas chips, with BASIC options.

Home Technologies FLA
The 70691BASIC Board uses the 8052-BASIC Chip

J&M Microtek
8052-Basic boards using the Philips 80C552
West Orange, NJ

Microcomputer Systems
Baton Rouge LA

Micromint
The first to offer BASIC-52 in a CMOS chip.
Many boards.
The Domino is a complete system in a tiny molded package.
Founded by Steve Ciarcia, now under new ownership.
Longwood, FL

Midwest Micro-Tek
8051 boards with BASIC-52 option.
Brookings, SD

MITE (Czech republic)
Controllers with an enhanced Basic-52

Rigel Corporation
RIC320 uses a Dallas DS80C320, available with Basic

8052-Basic Chips

(Many of the pc-board vendors listed above also sell individual chips.)

Jameco
Belmont, CA

JDR Microdevices
San Jose, CA

Programming Tools

Includes compilers, programming environments, and Basic-52 source code.

Basic compilers for the 8051 family

Binary Technology
Basic compiler.

Systronix
Basic compiler, including extensions for Dallas Soft/Secure Micros.

Dontronics
Inexpensive Basic compiler with floating-point and I2C support.

HanoverSoft
Basic compiler, development environment, toolkit.

Source Code and Other Files

Steve Walz's FTP site. 8052-Basic and other Basic and assembly-language files.
Asem-51 is an 8051 assember that will assemble the Basic-51 source code without errors. The binary file that results is identical to that in the 80C52-Basic. (135k)
Madis Kaal has an improved 8052-Basic and many projects, including an IDE interface.

Other Resources

Try out the 8052-Basic chip on the web. This is an actual system that you can control remotely. Enter commands and enter and run your own programs. From the Remote Experiment Lab at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. (In Portuguese and English).
MDL Labs has tips, hints, questions and answers, and links for 8052-Basic developers.
One of many source's for Russ Hersch's 8051 FAQ.
eg3 has an extensive list of 8051 Internet Resources.
Bruce Reynolds has several 8051 projects.
Murray R. Van Luyn's HomePage. Projects and code.

I've written some magazine articles on microcontroller-related topics.