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MICROCONTROLLERS

GPS Global Position System

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FREESCALE The microcontrollers division of Motorola

PICMICRO Microchip PIC

RENESAS Microcontrollers from Hitachi and Mitsubishi

ARM Cortex ARM 32bit Microcontroller [Cortex Core]

NXP Philips Semiconductors

ATMEL AVR and ARM the most famous ATMEL Microcontrollers (...and AVR32)

ST ST Microelectronics

MSP430 Low Power Microcontroller from Texas Instruments

8051 Probably the most famous 8bit core (dated)

RS232 Serial communication UART

PWM Pulse Width Modulation

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