Confuse between Controller / Interface

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mdpai

Joined Jan 5, 2010
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Hi,
I think I'm confuse the term module, controller and interface. Are these three the same thing? Can someone explain it to me if they have some free time of course.

I have a school project that need me to connect USB and Ethernet Ports to the microcontroller. There are some people explain me different things and right now I'm a bit lost. Btw, thanks for the explanation.

If I have a microcontroller that says :
• One USB 2.0 Full Speed (12 Mbits per second) Device Port
– On-chip Transceiver, 1352-byte Configurable Integrated FIFOs
• One Ethernet MAC 10/100 base-T
– Media Independent Interface (MII) or Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII)
– Integrated 28-byte FIFOs and Dedicated DMA Channels for Transmit and Receive


Do I still need 2 ethernet interface and 2 usb interface to able to connect the components to the microcontroller.

Thanks
 
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