The number of easily usable and programmable microcontrollers is small, so when selecting one for a project there are only a handful of very popular, well documented chips that most of us reach for.

A typical high-end car of today makes use of 50 to 60 microcontrollers to perform tasks in all areas. Today's high-end microcontrollers in automotive applications are 32bit processors running at 50MHz ...

San Francisco — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will announce this week an extension to its PSoC technology that will optimize the programmable system-on-chip device for capacitive sensing and control ...

In the fast-paced world of medical innovation, the development of programmable microbots is emerging as a revolutionary force, offering groundbreaking ...

For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio license, so he decided to use it as a police scanner. Since the schematics were available, he cracked it open and ...

Microchip's PIC10F32X incorporates a number of neat features like a Configurable Logic Cell, a Complementary Waveform Generator, and a Numerically Controlled Oscillator. The idea of incorporating ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2003 -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced the introduction of a new 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) that provides an optimal solution for ...

Most digital timers require a set of dip switches or rotary BCD encoders to preset their interval. But those techniques consume eight or more inputs from a microcontroller's (MCU's) I/O lines. To ...

"Cute circuitry" is not a term you hear often – if at all – but it could be used to describe Chibitronics, which is a crafty merging of electronics and paper. The system combines familiar adhesive ...