hardware//chip//microcomputer

A microcomputer is a small single-board computer that runs a full OS (Linux), used as an educational and prototyping platform. Unlike a bare MCU, it has enough RAM and storage to boot Linux and run user-space applications.

A microcomputer is a small single-board computer that runs a full OS (Linux), used as an educational and prototyping platform. Unlike a bare MCU, it has enough RAM and storage to boot Linux and run user-space applications.

The Raspberry Pi (built on a Broadcom SoC) and the Jetson (built on the NVIDIA Orin SoC) are typical examples.