WHAT MICROCONTROLLER FAMILIES ARE USED IN THIS TUTORIAL ??

To give a good overview of the different “flavors” of microcontrollers available, this tutorial will be written around 2 8-bit family (the 8051 and PIC ) and one 32-bit family (the ARM7TDMI architecture in the form of the NXP LPC2xxx family).  These families were chosen to give a broad picture of the devices and approaches found in the world of microcontrollers.  Most software examples will be written in embedded C for each of these families, as well as in assembly language.