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The Microcontroller Idea Book - Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research

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Because of the popularity of the 8052-BASIC chip, many companies have developed<br />

products to simplify the tasks of designing, building, and testing BASIC-52 systems. This<br />

chapter describes some of the offerings in these areas.<br />

Enhanced BASIC-52<br />

<strong>The</strong> BASIC-52 interpreter contained in the original 8052-BASIC is a good, full-featured<br />

and easy-to-use programming language. However, Intel hasn’t updated the program since<br />

version 1.1. Fortunately, other programmers have taken on the task of improving and<br />

enhancing the language.<br />

MDL Labs’ MDL-BASIC is an EPROM that contains an enhanced version of BASIC-52.<br />

It includes new operators that set and clear individual bits in memory, increment and<br />

decrement values, and return the remainder in integer division. MDL-BASIC also has<br />

improvements for faster loading and running of programs, and fixes many of BASIC-52’s<br />

bugs, such as the problem with variable names beginning with F (see Chapter 5). It requires<br />

a system that can operate with BASIC in external memory, as described in Chapter 14.<br />

Other vendors, including Blue Earth <strong>Research</strong> and Micromint, have improved and added to<br />

the BASIC-52 interpreter as well.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Microcontroller</strong> <strong>Idea</strong> <strong>Book</strong> 245

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