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		stevefan1999 on Dec 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Cl... Think MCUs are of the kinds like Arduino and microBit. There are also SBCs where bigger and more power hungry devices like Raspberry Pi belongs to.

that_jojo on Dec 19, 2019 [–]

Super late, but the term MCU refers to the actual chip -- analogous to SoC for the main chip on a raspi.

You don't call the raspi an SoC, and it's debatable that you'd call a prototyping platform like Arduino an MCU. The MCU is the main Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, or similar part that drives such a board.

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