As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of digital controlling. Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems ...

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers, weaving computation ...

[J. Benschop] is teaching his nine-year-old son electronics by giving him a few wires, LEDs, and batteries. Eventually, the son looked over at his dad’s workbench and wondered what the little ...

This tech article is about developing a basic security entry system, a project which I undertook as a student at the University of Cincinnati, while taking the class Embedded System Design. For the ...

Many microcontrollers include timer circuits, but only a few include a battery-backed real-time clock (RTC). Yet many applications require an RTC, which you can easily add by using a 1-Wire network.

Digi-Key has created towergeeks.org, an online community addressing Freescale's Tower System. The Tower System – a modular, reconfigurable development platform for 8, 16 and 32bit microcontrollers – ...

Structure and timing of typical microprocessors. Sample microprocessor families. Memories, UARTS, timer/counters, serial devices, and related devices. MUX and related control structures for building ...

Lattice Diamond Design Software Also Delivers Enhanced Support for the New Low Cost, Low Power "Do-It-All" MachXO2 PLD Family HILLSBORO, OR, Apr 18, 2011-- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: ...

This paper discusses about a low cost, portable, reusable platform established to ease the in-system power-up behaviour evaluation of MCU. This flexible platform is able to generate ramp-up signals at ...

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX31782, a system management microcontroller that combines six temperature measurement channels with six channels of closed-loop fan control. By monitoring ...