Advantages of 8051 Microcontroller

8051 microcontroller has the  following Advantages compare to other peripherals:-

• 4 register banks
  
  
• 128 bytes on-chip data memory (RAM)
  
  
• 64K bytes program memory (ROM)
  
  
• 8-bit bidirectional data bus
  
  
• 16-bit unidirectional address bus
  
  
• 32 general purpose registers each of 8-bit
  
  
• Three internal and two external Interrupts
  
  
• 16 bit Timers (usually 2, but may have more or less)
  
  
• Four 8-bit ports,(short model have two 8-bit ports)
  
  
• 16-bit program counter and data pointer