What is the main difference between a microcontroller and a general purpose microprocessor?

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  1. What is the main difference between a microcontroller and a general purpose microprocessor?
  2. What is meant by an embedded system? Give examples of such a system?
  3. State the major difference between the 8051 and the 8031 microcontrollers?
  4. What is the size of the on-chip ROM and internal RAM of the 8752 microcontroller?
  5. What is the RAM address space of memory Bank 3?
  6. If the crystal frequency of an 87C52 microcontroller chip is 22.1184 MHz, determine the machine cycle, and the time required to execute three instructions, each taking one machine
  7. Sketch a block diagram for an 8031 microcontroller chip connected to an external EPROM of (64K × 8 bits) organization.
  8. What is the function of the ALE pin in the 8051 microcontroller?
  9. Show what is the difference between connecting the EA pin to power supply VCC and to ground?
  10. Sketch a practical 8051 microcontroller circuit used to drive four LEDs with active high inputs connected to port 0.
  11. How many pins are associated to the 4 I/O ports?
  12. What are the two 16-bit registers in the 8051?
  13. What is the content of the stack pointer after RESET of the 8051?
  14. Which bits of the PSW are responsible for selection of the register banks?
  15. On power up, which of the register banks is used?
  16. What is the address and size of the accumulator in the 8051 microcontroller?
  17. A given 8051 microcontroller has 7FFFH as the address of its last location of on-chip What is the size of the on-chip ROM for this IC?
  18. What is the number of address lines and data lines in the 8051?
  19. What are the ports which are used for external memory access?
  20. What is the address space of the SFR registers?
  21. What do we mean by the bit addressable RAM of the 8051 
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