Hi,
I am not so clear about the relationship and precisely definition about some terms below:
Microprocessor, Core, Board, Microcontrollor
For example, samsung S3C2410 manul say it is using a ARM920T core. So, is the S3C2410 a Microprocessor or a board?
Thank you.
- woody
When you take apart your PC, the flat green thing with all the black things stuck on it is the motherboard, and it is a board.
Underneath the big fan there's a black square thing made by Intel or AMD. It's a microprocessor. The microprocessor has lots of bits and pieces -- it's got bus interfaces, cache, power regulation, etc. Sitting in the middle of all of it is the part that actually interprets instructions and does computations -- that's the core.
A microcontroller is a microprocessor that has a bunch of handy peripheral functions like serial controllers, timers and parallel I/O.
-- Tim Wescott Control systems and communications consulting http://www.wescottdesign.com Need to learn how to apply control theory in your embedded system? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" by Tim Wescott Elsevier/Newnes, http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
understood. S3C2410 is microcontroller which use ARM920T core, samsung then use S3C2410 to make some boards such as SBC2410X.
Thanks.
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