how does an 8bit MCU handle 16bit output? How does an 8bit MCU store values higher than 8bits? I am using an attiny, on an adafruit trinket. and other 8bit MCUs. http://www.atmel.com/devices/attiny85.aspx I was doing some things with uint32_t datatypes, when it hit me, that it would seem like uint32_t would be an incompatible datatype. Even 2Byte data type like int seems peculiar. "int stores a 16-bit (2-byte) value" considering the MCU is 8bit.
I saw this link, that sounded like it would have more info, but its pages are incomplete. http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/DatatypePractices
So how does that work? How does an 8bit MCU make use of data-types over 8bits?
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micro controller unit? – clankill3r Mar 22 '18 at 20:15