8051 HOW-TO GUIDE

Interfacing GPS with

8051

Contents at a Glance
8051 Primer Board ...........................................................3
GPS (Global Positioning Systems) .....................................3
Interfacing GPS ................................................................4
Interfacing GPS with 8051 ................................................5
Pin Assignment with 8051 ................................................5
Circuit Diagram to Interface GPS with 8051 ......................6
Source Code ....................................................................6
C Program to receives data from satellite to 8051 ............7
Testing the GPS with 8051 ...............................................9
General Information ...................................................... 10

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8051 Primer Board

The 8051 Primer board is specifically designed to help
students to master the required skills in the area of
embedded systems. The kit is designed in such way that all
the possible features of the microcontroller will be easily
used by the students. The kit supports in system
programming (ISP) which is done through serial port.
NXPs 8051 (89V51RD2), 8051 Primer Kit is proposed to
smooth the progress of developing and debugging of
various designs encompassing of High speed 8-bit
Microcontrollers.
GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based
satellite navigation system that provides location and time
information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth,
where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more
GPS satellites.
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Interfacing GPS
Fig. 1 shows how to interface the GPS with
microcontroller. The GPS module continuously transmits
serial data (RS232 protocol) in the form of sentences
according to NMEA standards. The latitude and longitude
values of the location are contained in the GPGGA sentence
(refer NMEA format).To communicate over UART or USART,
we just need three basic signals which are namely, RXD
(receive), TXD (transmit), GND (common ground). So to
interface UART with 8051, we just need the basic signals.

Fig. 1 Interfacing GPS to Microcontroller

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Interfacing GPS with 8051

We now want to receive data from satellite to 8051
Primer Board by using GPS module through UART0. The
serial data is taken from the GPS module through MAX232
into the SBUF register of 8051 microcontroller (refer serial
interfacing with 8051). The serial data from the GPS
receiver is taken by using the Serial Interrupt of the
controller. This data consists of a sequence of NMEA
sentences from which GPGGA sentence is identified and
processed.

ISP PGM

UART0(P1)

Pin Assignment with 8051

UART DB-9
Connector

8051
Lines

TXD-0

P3.0

RXD-0

P3.1

TXD-1

P1.2

Serial Port Section

(P2)

UART1

8051

MAX
3232

RXD-1

P01.3

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Circuit Diagram to Interface GPS with 8051

Source Code
The first six bytes of the data received are compared
with the pre-stored string and if matched then only data is
further accounted for; otherwise the process is repeated
again. From the comma delimited GPGGA sentence, latitude
and longitude positions are extracted by finding the
respective comma positions and extracting the data.

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C Program to receives data from satellite to 8051

***************************************************************************************
Title : Program to receive data from satellite to 8051 through UART0
***************************************************************************************
#include<reg51.h>
void serial(void);
void DelayMs(unsigned int);

//Define 8051 Registers

//Serial Communication Register
//Delay Function

unsigned int i,j;

unsigned char b[25],d;
//--------------------------//
Main Program
//--------------------------void main()
{
EA=1;
ES=1;
serial();
while(1);
}

//Enable All Interrupt

//Enable Serial Port Interrupt
//Serial Communication
//Loop Forever

//---------------------------------------------------------//
Serial Communication Register Initialisation
//---------------------------------------------------------void serial(void)
{
TMOD=0X20;
//Timer1, Mode2
SCON=0X50;
//Serial Mode1, Receive Enable
TH1=0XFD;
//Baud Rate 9600bps
TR1=1;
//Timer1 ON
}

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//----------------------------------------//
Serial Interrupt Function
//----------------------------------------void serin (void) interrupt 4
//Serial Port Interrupt
{
if(RI==1)
//Receive Interrupt Gets Enabled
{
//after Stop Bit get Received
d=SBUF;
//Serial Buffer value moved to a variable
b[j]=d;
SBUF=b[j];
DelayMs(20);
j++;
}
SCON=0X50;

//Delay Function

//Initialising Receive and Transmit Interrupt

}
//--------------------------------//
Delay Function
//--------------------------------void DelayMs(unsigned int k)
{
unsigned int i;
for(i=0;i<=k;i++);
}

To compile the above C code you need the KEIL

software. They must be properly set up and a project with
correct settings must be created in order to compile the
code. To compile the above code, the C file must be added
to the project.
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In Keil, you want to develop or debug the project

without any hardware setup. You must compile the code for
generating HEX file. In debugging Mode, you want to check
the port output without 8051 Primer Board.
The Flash Magic software is used to download the hex
file into your microcontroller IC 8051 through UART0.
Testing the GPS with 8051
Give +5V power supply to 8051 Primer Board; connect
+5V adapter with GPS module is connected with the 8051
Primer Board. Open the Hyper Terminal screen, select
which port you are using and set the default settings. Now
the screen should show some text messages.
If you are not reading any data from UART0, then you
just check the jumper connections & just check the serial
cable is working. Otherwise you just check the code with
debugging mode in Keil.

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If you want to see more details about debugging just

see the videos in below link.
How to Create & Debug a Project in Keil.
General Information
For proper working use the components of exact values
as shown in Circuit file. Wherever possible use new
components.
Solder everything in a clean way. A major problem
arises due to improper soldering, solder jumps and
loose joints.
Use the exact value crystal shown in schematic.
More instructions are available in following articles,
User Manual of 8051 Primer Board.
Tutorial of how to create & Debug a project in KEIL.
Interfacing UART with 8051.

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