Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

HANEL

MICRO-

CONTROLLERS

AND

EMBEDDED PROCESSORSMicrocontroller vs. General-Purpose Microprocessor

‰General-purpose microprocessors contains

¾No RAM¾No ROM ¾No I/O ports

‰Microcontroller has

¾CPU (microprocessor)¾RAM¾ROM¾I/O ports¾Timer¾ADC and other peripherals