microcontrollers

Microcontrollers are hidden inside a surprising number of products these days.

Microcontrollers derived from the 68000 family have been used in a huge variety of applications.

Microcontrollers are now cheap and simple to design circuit boards for.

Microcontrollers are dedicated to one task and run one specific program.

Microcontrollers find applications where a general-purpose computer would be too costly.

Microcontrollers require a clock source for the switching of the internal transistors.

Big Markets Involved Microcontrollers represent a larger market than microprocessors.

Microcontrollers (μC) have many more peripherals on chip, reducing power consumption, size and cost.

Microcontrollers do one thing well.

Microcontrollers typically do not have a math coprocessor, so floating point arithmetic is performed by software.

Microcontrollers are "embedded" inside some other device (often a consumer product) so that they can control the features or actions of the product.

Microcontrollers are "special purpose computers."

Microcontrollers often include an integrated, on-chip watchdog.

Microcontrollers contain memory and other parts of a computer on the same chip, whereas microprocessors contain only the central processing unit.

Microcontrollers are often low-power devices.

Microcontrollers are designed for embedded applications, in contrast to the microprocessors used in personal computers or other general purpose applications.

Microcontrollers often operate at very low speed compared to microprocessors (at clock speeds of as little as 32 kHz), but this is adequate for typical applications.

Microcontrollers include the microprocessor and also have extra features built in, reducing the overall cost and size of the system, but with less flexibility because those parts cannot be changed.

Microcontrollers Laboratory (NI Corp) Electronics Laboratory (Israel, Russia)

Microcontrollers are used in automatically controlled products and devices, such as automobile engine control systems, remote controls, machines, appliances, power tools, and toys, these are called embedded systems.

ARM Microcontroller Development HOWTO - Document describing development environment for ARM7 Microcontrollers on Linux.

Microcontrollers are characterized by having small amounts of program (flash memory) and data (SRAM) memory, with no cache, and take advantage of the Harvard architecture to speed processing by concurrent instruction and data access.

HCS12 Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems HCS12 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and C with CodeWarrior, 1e features a systematic, step-by-step approach to covering various aspects of HCS12 C and Assembly language programming and interfacing.