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05 8th, 2008| 
Chapter1: Introduction to Microcontrollers
* Introduction
* 1.1 What are microcontrollers and what are they used for?
* 1.2 What is what in microcontroller?
Introduction
It was electricity in the beginning….The people were happy because they did not know that it was existing all around them and that it could be utilized. It was fine. And then Faraday came and the stone has started rolling slowly…
During the time, the first machines using a new sort of energy appeared accompanied with people who knew something about electricity. A long time has passed since then and just when civilization got used to this innovation and stopped paying attention to what a new generation of specialists were doing, someone came up with an idea that electrons could be a very convenient toy being closed in a glass pipe. At first sight, it was only a good idea, but there was no return, electonics was born and the stone continued rolling down the hill faster and faster…
A new science - new specialists. The blue coats were replaced with white ones and people who knew something about electronics appeared on stage. While the rest of the humanity were passively watching in disbelief what was going on, within plotters two fractions appeared- “software-oriented” and “hardware-oriented”. A bit younger than their teachers, very enthusiastic and full of ideas, both of them kept on working but separate ways. While the first group had a stable development, hardware-oriented people, driven by success, soon threw caution to the wind and invented transistor.
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