@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ lang: en
2424## Getting Started With the micro: bit Hardware
2525
2626The micro: bit hardware is based on the Arm-Mbed platform.
27- It has an application processor with lots of on-chip perhipherals .
27+ It has an application processor with lots of on-chip peripherals .
2828Some off-chip peripherals are connected to this chip.
2929There is an interface processor connected to the application processor,
3030and it is the interface processors job to manage communications over the USB
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The nRF51 application processor is where user programs run.
4848A single, complete application including user code, runtime code and bluetooth stack
4949is loaded and run directly from on chip flash memory.
5050All user accessible GPIO pins are provided by this processor.
51- There is an onboard 2.4GHz radio engine used to provide Bluetooth capabilities
51+ There is an on-board 2.4GHz radio engine used to provide Bluetooth capabilities
5252via an off-chip aerial.
5353
5454| item | details
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ via an off-chip aerial.
6464
6565### Bluetooth Wireless Communication
6666
67- The on board 2.4GHz transciever supports Bluetooth communications via the Nordic S110 SoftDevice,
67+ The on board 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth communications via the Nordic S110 SoftDevice,
6868which provides a fully qualified Bluetooth low energy stack.
6969This allows the micro: bit to communicate with a wide range of Bluetooth devices,
7070including smartphones and tablets.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ including smartphones and tablets.
8484
8585### Low Level Radio Communications
8686
87- The on board 2.4GHz transciever supports a number of other radio communications standards, on which we build the microbit-radio protocol
87+ The on board 2.4GHz transceiver supports a number of other radio communications standards, on which we build the microbit-radio protocol
8888This protocol provides a very simple small-packet broadcast radio interface between other devices
8989that support it, such as other micro: bit devices.
9090The 'radio' interface that appears in a number of the languages on the micro: bit
@@ -116,15 +116,15 @@ or from battery.
116116Front buttons A and B can be programmed in the user application for any purpose.
117117A and B are debounced by software, which also includes short press, long press,
118118and 'both A+B' press detection. Buttons operate in a typical inverted electrical mode,
119- where a pullup resistor ensures a logical '1' when the button is released,
119+ where a pull-up resistor ensures a logical '1' when the button is released,
120120and a logical '0' when the button is pressed.
121121Both A and B buttons are connected to GPIO pins that are also accessible on the micro: bit edge connector.
122122
123123| item | details
124124| --- | ---
125125| Type | 2 tactile user buttons, 1 tactile system button
126126| Debounce | (A & B) software debounced, 54ms period
127- | Pullup | (A & B) external 4K7, (System) 10K
127+ | Pull-up | (A & B) external 4K7, (System) 10K
128128
129129
130130### Display
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ which is roughly proportional to ambient light levels.
139139
140140| item | details
141141| --- | ---
142- | Type | minature surface mount red LED
142+ | Type | miniature surface mount red LED
143143| Physical structure | 5x5 matrix
144144| Electrical structure | 3x9
145145| Intensity control | 10 steps
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ bottom. The 3V pad at the bottom can be used to supply a small amount of power e
237237| --- | ---
238238| Operating range | 1.8V .. 3.6V
239239| USB current | 120mA max
240- | Onboard Peripherals budget | 30mA
240+ | On-board Peripherals budget | 30mA
241241| Battery connector | JST X2B-PH-SM4-TB
242242| Battery current | TBC
243243| Max current provided via edge connector | 90mA
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ of application programs.
285285The interface processor can be used with special host tools to debug
286286code that is running on the application processor. It connects to the application
287287processor via 4 signal wires. The KL26 interface processor code can also
288- be debuged via it's integral SWD software debug interface, for example to
288+ be debugged via it's integral SWD software debug interface, for example to
289289load initial bootloader code into this processor at manufacturing time, or to
290290recover a lost bootloader.
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