A controller has certain functionalities like ADC, PWM, DAC, SPI and so on. We call such a functionalities a feature.
Examples for features:
UART
SPI
I2C
ADC
PWM
DAC
TC
One can control a certain feature by a set of registers. If we have more than one sets of registers at one controller which has exactly the same functionality, we have more than one unit of this feature.