The paper detailed expounds the intelligent attendance system, the design method,the purpose of the software process and can achieve results. The intelligentattendance system adopts the light emitting diode and photodiode photoelectricsensor circuit, complete student number recognition, by AT89S52 single chipmicrocomputer as the core, memory chip and display circuit constitute the mainpart of the system. The paper presents a smart attendance system hardwarecircuit design and software design flow chart.