MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER

Detailed explanation-1: -The 8051 family of microcontrollers provides a distinct memory area for accessing Special Function Registers (SFRs). SFRs are used in your program to control timers, counters, serial I/Os, port I/Os, and peripherals. SFRs reside from address 0x80 to 0xFF and can be accessed as bits, bytes, and words.

Detailed explanation-2: -Special Function Registers (SFR’s) In 8051 micro controller there are 21 Special function registers (SFR) and this includes Register A, Register B, Processor Status Word (PSW), PCON etc etc. There are 21 unique locations for these 21 special function registers and each of these register is of 1 byte size.