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What are the main difference between Micro-controller and
micro-processor?
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Answer / nick
Processor can't operate single bit operation while
controller is having bit addressing capacity
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Answer / manasa
Microprocessor
1. It is stand alone device.
2. It is general purpose computer.
3. It has no serial ports, watchdog timer facility.
4. Has more number of opcodes.
5. Application: In higher end projects.
6. It has few bit handling instructions.
7. It is just a proccessor.
Microcontroller
1. It is not a stand alone device.
2. It is application specific /single purpose computer.
3.It has serial ports, watchdog timer facility.
4. It has few number of opcodes.
5. Application: In lower end projects.
6. It has more bit handling instructions.
7. It is a processor with RAM,ROM and with some logic circuit.
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Answer / chandravir chhonkar
microprocesser-basic in microprosser there are seprate ports for memory ,ram ,rom,and input output devices..and we increase and decrease the memory...
microcontroller-basic in microcontroller there is a complete circuit and the ports and memory is fixed ..it can not be changed ....
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Answer / teju
micro processor is a single chip memory device.it contains
cu, alu , registers .
micro controller is a single chip memory device. it
contains contents of micro processor,timers,
counters,memory elements .
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Answer / mohana
Microprocessor Micro-controller
*It is meant for general It is meant for special purp-
purpose register. ose register.
*It uses Harvard It uses van-numean
architecture. architecture.
*Processor are register Controller are memory
oriented architecture. oriented architecture.
*It does not have inbuilt It have inbuilt timer,serial
timer. port etc.
*It does not have ports. It has four ports.
*It occupies more space. It occupies less space.
*It draws high current It draws less current
*no such features It has features of
connecting 64KB of RAM &
64KB of ROM inbuilt
externally.
*Speed is less. Speed is high.
*It is costly It is cheap.
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Answer / vinodkumar bl
1. Microprocessor is used to perform many task
Micro controller is used to perform single task
2. General purpose
Specific purpose
3. M.p does not contain on chip Ram /Rom,I/O ports timers etc
It has fixed amount of Ram /Rom,I/O ports timers on chip
4. In built memory
Internal memory
5. M.P requires more external hardware
M.C requires more internal hardware
6. M.P have many operational code
M.C have one OR two operational code
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Answer / vaibhav singh
The microcontroller is basically a processor with some special features like ADC, DAC, RAM, ROM, etc., in it.
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