Behind the hype is a newly surfaced Tesla patent that sheds light on how the company is rethinking the most fundamental ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...

The µPD789800 subseries is an 8-bit, single chip microcontrollers developed for PC peripheral applications with USB 1.1 function. It has two serial interface channels, and feature an on-chip regulator ...

Embedded developers are continually looking for the optimal microcontrollers (MCUs) for their system designs – without counting bits. Developers simply want the right level of functionality to meet ...

Three common applications where a new class of 8-bit MCUs with advanced analog filtering capabilities support modern systems. As embedded designs have evolved, the 8-bit MCU has evolved from simple ...

Upgrading from an 8-bit to a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) typically requires substantial software changes, even when a high-level language like C is employed, because the peripheral architectures are ...

The Atari 400 is a home computer that first launched in 1979 with a 1.79 MHz 8-bit processor, 8 KB of RAM, four joystick ports, a cartridge slot, and an unusual membrane keyboard. More than four ...