Micro Controller

MICRO CONTROLLER

• Single-chip Microcomputers are also known as Micro controllers. 
• They are used primarily to perform dedicated functions. 
• They are used primarily to perform dedicated functions or as slaves in distributed processing.
• Generally they include all the essential elements of a computer on a single chip: MPU,R/W memory, ROM and I/O lines. 
• Typical examples of the single-chip microcomputers are the Intel 8051, AT89C51, AT89C52 and Zilog Z8. 
•  Most of the micro controllers have an 8-bit word size, at least 64 bytes of R/W memory, and 1K byte of ROM 
• I/O lines varies from 16 to 40

  

  Microcontroller