This article presents an introduction of microcontrollers as the first part on the series Embedded Systems Programming. It describes the structure and operation of the microcontroller, and the purpose ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the E8a emulator, an ultra-small, low-priced, environment-friendly on-chip debugging emulator for developing ...

If you want to use the reset pin as I/O, you will need to use High Voltage Parallel Programming to talk to your chip. Even if you don’t decide to do that, at some point you’re going to screw up and ...

The CC3200 is a SimpleLink™ single-chip wireless MUC for Wi-Fi and Internet-of-Things solution. The device is a wireless MCU that integrates a high-performance ARM Cortex-M4 MCU, allowing customers to ...

[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 ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today introduced an ARM (R) Cortex (TM)-M4 core based microcontroller (MCU) family designed for single-chip, graphics LCD applications. The high-performance Kinetis ...

The CP2102 packs an on-chip 48-MHz clock and 1 kbyte of EEPROM for a high-performance, single-chip USB-to-UART bridge. The EEPROM includes a security lock function. The UART interfaces run up to 1 ...