[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckled ...

The last part of the Embedded Systems programming discuss about interrupt processing and the alternative process of polling. It briefly describes interrupts and polling, as well as the interrupt ...

Dallas – A line of microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Inc. combines TI's MSP430 flash MCU core and an analog front end for manufacturers developing electronic energy meters with sophisticated ...

We love looking at hardcore electronics projects with a beefy microcontroller and hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code at its center. But everyone needs to get there somehow. This tutorial ...

Power management and motor control chip standards are evolving in response to increasingly complex end application demands, and microcontroller units (MCU) are being used to handle more sophisticated ...

SAM3U is Code Portable from Atmel's Established ARM7- and ARM9-based MCU Families SAN JOSE, Calif. -- June 1, 2009-- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the SAM3U, the industry's first ...

With their wide data bus, large address space, DSP-style instructions, and reduced power consumption, 32-bit microcontroller chips continue to dominate high-end applications. Large, fast, low-cost ...