What is the basic difference between microprocessor and microcontroller?

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what is the basic difference in microprocessor and microcontroller
 

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Miguel Gaspar said:
A microcontroller is a microprocesor with special aditaments like memory, ADC, DAC,etc.

That's it!!
 

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microprocessor is used as a computing unit....so it has to be integrated with memory, IO, ...etc to have a complete system

whereas the microcontroller already has all of this inside one chip....no need to have add-ons.....some microcontrollers also have ADC, UART, ....etc. Each vendor offers different features and according to ur system requirements you choose whichever suits u best

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Salma
 

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Microcontroller features
•On-chip peripherals
••Timers, analog-digital converters, serial communication, etc.
••Tightly integrated for programmer, typically part of register space
•On-chip program and data memory
•Direct programmer access to many of the chip’s pins
•Specialized instructions for bit-manipulation and other low-level operations
 

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Microcontroller is also a microprocessor with some additinal features lik i.o ports,bulit in memory,timer,ADCs,DAcs..
 

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microcontroller is dedicated for a particular application but microprocessor can be used in any application...
 

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