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3. Microcontroller
A black rectangle chip with 28 pins.
The Brain of the Arduino board.
Model for Arduino Uno board is Atmega328p by Atmel
Atmega328p Specifications:
FLASH MEMORY: 32KB (The program loaded from Arduino IDE is stored here)
RAM: 2KB (a runtime memory)
CPU: Fetches the program instructions from flash memory and runs them with the help of
RAM.
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM): 1KB (keeps the data
even after device restart and reset.)
5. Digital pins
Arduino contains 14 of it BUT labeled as 0-13 NOT 1-14
These pins can be used as either input or output pins.
When Input, it reads signal from components connected to it
When output, it acts a power supplier for the components connected to it. It supplies 40
milliamps of current at 5 volts enough to light an LED
Some of the digital pins are labeled with tilde (~) symbol next to the pin numbers (pin
numbers 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11). These pins act as normal digital pins but can also be used
for Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), which simulates analog output like fading an LED in
and out.
6. Reset switch
Runs the program again
7. Crystal oscillator
A quartz crystal oscillator which ticks 16 million times a second. On each tick, the
microcontroller performs one operation, for example, addition, subtraction, etc.
9. TX RX LEDs
TX stands for transmit
RX for receive
Blinks whenever the UNO board is transmitting or receiving data.
LED
The longer lead is know as the Anode, the side of the LED which we will connect to
power. The shorter leg is named the Cathode, which will be pointed away from our power source.
Undermining the polarity will cause the LED to not work.