microcontroller

English

Alternative forms

• µC, uC, MCU

Etymology

From micro- +‎ controller.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹə(ʊ)kənˌtɹəʊlə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkɹoʊkənˌtɹoʊlɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

microcontroller (plural microcontrollers)

1. (computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
   • 2021 December, “Snap Circuits Arcade”, in Snap Circuits‎, Elenco, page 6:

     The microcontroller is a mini computer which can be programmed to perform different tasks, including monitoring things and making things happen. It is pre-programmed for use with the games projects. See project 17 for how to select games on it.

Hypernyms

• controller

Translations

microcomputer on a single chip

Chinese: Mandarin: 單片機 / 单片机 (zh) (dānpiànjī) Dutch: microcontroller (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mikrokontrolleri (fi), mikro-ohjain French: microcontrôleur (fr) German: Mikrocontroller (de) m Greek: μικροελεγκτής (el) m (mikroelegktís) Indonesian: mikrokontroler, mikropengendali Japanese: マイクロコントローラ (maikurokontorōra), マイコン (ja) (maikon) Korean: please add this translation if you can Malay: mikropengawal Russian: микроконтро́ллер (ru) m (mikrokontróller) Turkish: mikrodenetleyici Vietnamese: vi điều khiển

See also

• microbot
• microprocessor

References

• microcontroller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia