DPRG - MCU Primer DPRG MCU Primer Content provided by Erick Wagner, Kip Moravec, and Jim Brown. You are probably familiar with the term microprocessor.
All personal computers have one.
It is a chip that does all of the computing in your computer. They have names like Pentium, 80486DX2, MC68040, PowerPC, and many varients. For them to work correctly they have to have a lot of things around them. The first thing is a clock, that sets the speed the processor and all of the devices will be synchronized to. Since I am a PC person, not a Mac person, I will use PC processors for examples.