Microcontrollers are devices of integrated circuits (IC) typically used to control other parts of an electronic system through a microprocessor unit (MPU), memory, and certain peripherals. In industrial applications, the role of microcontrollers is to control and coordinate the action of the whole equipment, usually need program counter (PC), instruction decoder (ID), timing and control circuit, as well as pulse source, interrupt, etc.
Renesas 16-Bit Single-Chip Microcomputer H8S Family/H8S/2100 Series