MICROCONTROLLERS
A microcontroller is a single chip. It is the integration of CPU with memory and input/output
interfaces (ports) and peripherals such as timer on a single chip. As shown in
figure-
Classification
of microcontroller
a) Semi-conductor technology adopted in
their design
b) Width of data format
c) Instruction set
d) Data type they can handle.
- Semiconductor technology adopted
- I. Transistor-transistor logic (TTL)
- II. complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
- III. Emitter coupled logic (ECL)
- Width of data format
As the name suggest, in this type is design as per data
transfer. Such as 4bit, 8bit, 16bit and 32bit microcontroller.
- Instruction set
Microcontrollers are two types based on instruction set:-
I.
CISC
- complex instruction set computing.
II.
RISC-
reduced instruction set computing.
CISC
microcontroller are slower compared to RISC microcontroller but are easier to
program.
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