This book has been produced to meet a need for an English textbook geared to a bilingual education project in the Shandong University of Science and Technology.The microcontroller field is a discipline of high relevance to a spectrum of engineersin electronics， control, measurement, robotics, computation and the bio-medicalareas. The subject is taught to more than 500 undergraduate students in the college,and although given at the third year of the degree course, it is foundational to thevarious specialisations which students take. Therefore it was felt to be a good choicefor the bilingual experiment.

Chapter 1 Introducing Microcontrollers
Chapter 2 The Hardware of the MCS-51 MicrocontroUer
Chapter 3 The MCS-51 Instruction Set and Special Function Registers
Chapter 4 Assembly Language Programming for the MCS-51
Chapter 5 Interrupt Handling on the MCS-51
Chapter 6 Timer/Counters and Serial Port Operation
Chapter 7 Expansion of Memory and Input/Output Ports
Chapter 8 Interfacing the MCS-51 to Electronic Devices
Chapter 9 Interfacing the MCS-51 to Mechanical and Optical Devices
Chapter 10 Programming Microcontrollers in C Language
Chapter 11 Design of Microcontroller Systems
Appendix A The 8051 Instruction Set
Appendix B Pinouts of Common Integrated Circuits
Appendix C The ASCII Character Set
Appendix D Chinese-English Vocabulary List
Index