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microcontroller vs microprocessor |
processor designed for fast calculations, with majority of memory and peripherals on separate chips. Controller designed to be small, cheap and low power and have its CPU, memory and peripherals on same integrated circuit. |
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what is an embedded system |
typically a microcontroller+associated electronics used for a specific purpose |
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what is 'register' |
On-chip memory, can hold single piece (word) of data. CPU registers are located near the ALU and use fast memory technology. PIC18F has 1 CPU register, called working register. |
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what is 'radix' |
another term for base of number system - describes how many different symbols there are in number system e.g. binary is base 2 mpasm radix directive sets default base of number system for values in your program |
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what is 'literal' |
constant value stored within machine code instruction |
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what does memory address bus depth tell you about the memory |
it's related to number of individual memory locations within the memory. This number is equal to: 2^(number of bits (wires) in the address bus) |
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1GiB in MiB |
1024 MiB |
