Question

I need to code a delay for a 8051. I can do that but what I don’t know is how to calculate the frecuency of my delay. For example, here is a delay I did:

DELAY: MOV R2, 0FFH
D2:    NOP
       NOP
       DJNZ R2, DELAY
       RET

But what I don’t know is how many Hz of frequency this delay produces. Is there any way of calculating it?

Answer 1

You need to know how many cycles each instruction takes, and the speed of your processor.

Generically, if your processor is 1MHz, and NOP takes 2 cycles, the DJNZ take 3 cycles (making all of these up, no idea how many cycles these take on a 8051), then the first trip through the loop, from D2: would be 7 cycles (2 + 2 + 3 = 7), with a 1MHz processor, each cycle is 1 microsecond, so that would take 7 µs, rinse and repeat until you reach your desired delay.

Note, you probably don’t want the DJNZ to jump to DELAY, but D2. Not familiar with the 8051 really, but that’s just a guess.

Also don’t forget to add up the MOV and RET instructions.