Iyer Balaji wrote:
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Hi,
I am learning microcontrollers, and i have a book on 8051. I have a simulator installed. Is it necessary to buy an evaluation board?.

I would get one if possible. I use this one for a lot of experiments: NMIY8031

There may be others/newer ones/better ones available, but that's the one I found (on eBay) some years ago...

What are the things the evaluation board can teach, that one cant do using a simulator.

It can teach you if your code works in a real-world circuit.

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen