The terms listed here are common microcontroller terms. This page provides a brief definition of these terms and how they relate to products designed for microcontroller applications.
| Microcontroller Nomenclature Dictionary |
- Bit - A single binary value, 1 or 0.
- BOR - Brown Out Reset
- Byte - 8 bits
- CAN - Controller Area Network
- D/A or DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
- DMA - Direct Memory Access
- EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only memory
- Ethernet - Family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operates at many speeds for local area networks (LANs) and has been standardized as IEEE 802.3
- EUSART - Enhanced Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- Flash - Non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed
- IrDA - Infrared Serial Port
- I²C - Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus
- JTAG - Joint Test Action Group
- LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
- LIN - Local Interconnection Network
- LVD - Low Voltage Detect
- MAC - Media Access Control address
- MCU - Microcontroller
- MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
- MPU - Microprocessor
- OTP - One Time Programmable
- PHY - Physical Layer
- PLL - Phase Lock Loop
- POR - Power On Reset
- PWM - Pulse Width Module
- RAM - Random Access Memory
- ROM-less - External ROM necessary
- RTC - Real Time Clock
- RTCC - Real Time Clock with Calendar
- RX - Receive
- SMBus - System Management Bus
- SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface
- SSU - Synchronous Serial Communication unit
- TWI - Two Wire Interface
- TX - Transmit
- USART - Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- USB - Universal Serial Bus
- Vref - Voltage Reference
- WDT - Watch Dog Timer
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