Friday, June 7, 2013

What is MCU?

What is MCU? And how does it works.

  MCU or Micro Controller Unit is the brain of any embedded systems.

  There are many MCUs in the market and all of them clam that their MCU is the best, but really it depends on application.

 Some of the well known MCUs are:


 Microchip PIC family like PIC16 and PIC18 series.

Texas Instruments MPS430
 




When you chose a MCU for your project, you need to consider what you want to do. There is no multipurpose MCU also, there is no good and bad MCU. It all depends on applications.
 
 All MCUs contain three main part.
  1. ALU
  2. Memory
  3. I/O
These are the essential part that any MCU has.
 
I don't want to continue on this technical issue. It's really boring to know about all these staff :D . there fore I leave it and in the next post will tell you how to start your very first code and simulate it in a simulator.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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