USMAN AFZAL
Member • Sep 2, 2013
Difference b/w microcontroller and computer
tell me what is difference b/w microcontroller and computer??????????
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Member • Sep 3, 2013
Computer is made-up of Processor which requires I/O Peripherals that are externally connected, making it bulky & complex design.
While, Microcontroller has all I/O peripherals embedded inside a single chip. Due to this, Microcontroller is also called mini-computer.
However, Microcontroller cannot match the clock-speed of Computer(Hence less processing speed), which is obvious because you can simply add external I/O peripherals like RAM,ROM to microprocessor but you cannot do so in microcontroller. In microcontroller the RAM & ROM size is fixed & after IC being manufactured you cannot change it.Are you sure? This action cannot be undone.