The General Situation of AT89C51 Microcontrollers are used in a multitude of commercial applications such as modems, motor-control systems, air conditioner control systems, automotive engine and among others
The high processing speed and enhanced peripheral set of these microcontrollers make them suitable for such high-speed event-based applications
However, these critical application domains also require that these microcontrollers are highly reliable
The high reliability and low market risks can be ensured by a robust testing process and a proper tools environment for the validation of these microcontrollers both at the component and at the system level
Intel Platform Engineering department developed an object-oriented multi-threaded test environment for the validation of its AT89C51