The three key areas of difference between microprocessors and microcontrollers are hardware structure, application area, and instruction set characteristics. First, the hardware structure.

The difference between the terms MPU and MCU for these situations may only be dependent on the lineage of the system the CPU is being integrated into.” Thomas Ensergueix, senior director for low-power ...

Gregory Davis, Tektronix EETimes (7/1/2012 7:26 PM EDT) Embedded systems typically involve a number of serial communications links running between microcontrollers, peripheral chips and the outside ...