Microcomputer - small computers: Microcomputers, also called personal computers (PC), can fit next to a desk or on a desktop, or can be carried around. They are either stand-alone …

Chapter 1: Basic Microcomputer Concepts Aims – Describe the main terminologies, internal architecture and operating principles of microcomputer and its components.

microcomputer is used to describe a system that includes at minimum a microprocessor, program memory, data memory, and an input-output (I/O) device. Some microcomputer systems …

Lecture 1: Introduction to Microcomputers Wh y do we st ud y microcomp uters? Microcomputer • Major components of the computer - the processor, the control unit, one or more memory ICs, …

Intel’s founder, Robert Noyce, chartered Ted Hofss Applications Research Department in 1969 to find new applications for silicon technology-the microcomputer was the result.

You will also learn about the concept of interrupt structures; programmed transfer, DMA microcomputer systems; types of microprocessors; uses of microprocessors, microcomputer …

Reference is made throughout this book to two particular microcomputers which happen to be 8-bit machines. That is to say 8 bits of data are transferred or operated on during an operation …