In the control field, a variety of angles and displacement measurements often need to be carried out. At present, the world is facing a new technological revolution; one of the most important bases of the revolution is measurement. The development of measurement technology brings extensive，tremendous and profound changes to human society and all sectors of the national economy, changes the traditional industries and other emerging industries, becomes today's strongest driving force for development of human society .
The encoder speed measurement system is designed to measure a different speed from the outside values，to achieve real-time speed measurement and display. Specific application use AT80C51 microcontroller as its core, rotary encoder measures real-time shaft speed, in both 8 serial Segment type LCD display module display. Rotary encoder output a 4.25V, 8-bit binary natural code into the MCU processed and computed, and then look-up table converts to 10 decimal number, sent to LCD display module.
In this paper, detailed working process of speed measurement system is started with principle of speed measurement, and hardware circuit design and display. This paper has absorbed the idea of hardware and software to achieve with the subject required functionality.
