What's the relationship between these terms

Hi,

I am not so clear about the relationship and precisely definition
about some terms below:

    Microprocessor, Core, Board, Microcontrollor

For example, samsung S3C2410 manul say it is using a ARM920T core.
So, is the S3C2410 a Microprocessor or a board?

Thank you.

-
woody

On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:12:44 -0700, Steven Woody wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not so clear about the relationship and precisely definition about
> some terms below:
> 
>     Microprocessor, Core, Board, Microcontrollor
> 
> For example, samsung S3C2410 manul say it is using a ARM920T core. So,
> is the S3C2410 a Microprocessor or a board?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -
> woody

When you take apart your PC, the flat green thing with all the black 
things stuck on it is the motherboard, and it is a board.

Underneath the big fan there's a black square thing made by Intel or 
AMD.  It's a microprocessor.  The microprocessor has lots of bits and 
pieces -- it's got bus interfaces, cache, power regulation, etc.  Sitting 
in the middle of all of it is the part that actually interprets 
instructions and does computations -- that's the core.

A microcontroller is a microprocessor that has a bunch of handy 
peripheral functions like serial controllers, timers and parallel I/O.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Control systems and communications consulting
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Need to learn how to apply control theory in your embedded system?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" by Tim Wescott
Elsevier/Newnes, http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

On May 15, 4:09 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:12:44 -0700, Steven Woody wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am not so clear about the relationship and precisely definition about
> > some terms below:
>
> >     Microprocessor, Core, Board, Microcontrollor
>
> > For example, samsung S3C2410 manul say it is using a ARM920T core. So,
> > is the S3C2410 a Microprocessor or a board?
>
> > Thank you.
>
> > -
> > woody
>
> When you take apart your PC, the flat green thing with all the black
> things stuck on it is the motherboard, and it is a board.
>
> Underneath the big fan there's a black square thing made by Intel or
> AMD.  It's a microprocessor.  The microprocessor has lots of bits and
> pieces -- it's got bus interfaces, cache, power regulation, etc.  Sitting
> in the middle of all of it is the part that actually interprets
> instructions and does computations -- that's the core.
>
> A microcontroller is a microprocessor that has a bunch of handy
> peripheral functions like serial controllers, timers and parallel I/O.
>
> --
> Tim Wescott
> Control systems and communications consultinghttp://www.wescottdesign.com
>
> Need to learn how to apply control theory in your embedded system?
> "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" by Tim Wescott
> Elsevier/Newnes,http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

understood.  S3C2410 is microcontroller which use ARM920T core,
samsung then use S3C2410 to make some boards such as SBC2410X.

Thanks.