What is a development board?
A development board by definition is a board containing A MICROPROCESSOR (OR A MICROCONTROLLER) that
contains the necessary electronics to allow the engineer to have hands on experience
and familiarity with the processor/controller to be able to work on it. A
development board has a normal processor/controller but has the necessary
electronics that would enable one to work on the processor/controller. Imagine
having a core i5 processor with all the supporting electronics with. An
engineer working with a tech company like Intel would be able to do whatever he
needs to do and know about the processor. He would test for redundancies,
processing power, etc.
However,
our point of interest is a microcontroller. A microcontroller development has
the above apply to it but just that the processing chip would be a
microcontroller. Arduino (Uno in our case) has a microcontroller and has all
the supporting electronics to be able to work on the board without so much stress
of building an extra circuit to support our MC. All we do is plug and ….. Play!
Arduino has a fuse that protects it from extra current when connected to the USB
port on our computer (which uses a microprocessor BTW). It has pins on it that
we can use to test the power of our MC. All these things give Arduino the feel
of a development board.
What
is a microcontroller board
Just as the name sounds, it is the board that has a
microcontroller. It has a MC as its backbone.
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