It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps ...
Freescale has just introduced the world’s smallest ARM Cortex-powered microcontroller unit (MCU), the Kinetis KL02. Compared with its nearest competitor, the Kinetis consumes 25% less board area yet ...
US semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) just revealed what it claims is “the world’s smallest microcontroller (MCU).” ...
According to Texas Instruments, it has developed the smallest microcontroller available, expanding the company's Arm Cortex-M0+ MSPM0 MCU portfolio. The 1.38-mm 2 wafer chip-scale packaged (WCSP) ...
For a beginner new to ARM based microcontrollers, it can sometimes be a little difficult knowing where exactly to start finding all the useful information that will help with a new design. There are ...