Difference between Firmware and Microcode

What is the difference between Firmware and Microcode?

Firmware as a noun is something in-between hardware and software. like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on. while Microcode as a noun is the collective microprograms in a cpu, used to run machine instructions

We hope you now know whether to use Firmware or Microcode in your sentence.