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Originally posted by Ryan Foley
Ok, I'm not good with this kind of stuff, so I have a few questions
What does 10MIPS mean?
What does it mean by "direct access to I/O"?
lastly, what does "has interrupts" mean?
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MIPS is million instructions per second
Direct access to I/O means that you can access the pin inputs and ouputs for the controller and read and/or manipulate their values directly.
Interrupts are what a controller uses to perform other tasks outside the main program loop. The processor goes off for a while to process the interrupt and comes back to the main code where it left off (Could be used for sensor polling etc).
You should grab a good book on microcontrollers if you are really interested. It should explain all this stuff. Or just do a search on google.