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according to their requirement. An example of microprocessor applications is on computer motherboard as shown in Figure 1.2.

Figure 1.2: Component in computer motherboard (https://www.learncomputerscienceonline.com )

1.3.2 Microcontroller

A microcontroller (sometimes abbreviated Β΅C, uC or MCU) is a single integrated circuit containing a processor core, memory, and programmable input/output peripherals. Microcontroller also called computer in chip. The fixed amount of on-chip ROM, RAM, and number of I/O ports in microcontroller makes them ideal for low cost and low space applications. Figure 3 shows the illustrations of inside of a microcontroller.

Figure 3: Inside microcontroller chip (https://www.polytechnichub.com)

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