The homebrew vacuum-tube computer the internet fell for this week reminds us how far we've come.

Modern embedded designs require a wide range of capabilities, including low power support, high performance/throughput, function-rich peripherals, different ...

The rise in popularity of 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) devices across the embedded community comes as no surprise. These function-rich devices suit an array of different applications, which explains ...

8-bit MCUs continue to thrive via continued innovations in several areas including memory, power consumption, packaging, and core-independent peripherals (CIPs). New generations of MCUs incorporate an ...

For 8-bit designs to support the expanding computational loads for these applications, external hardware extensions would have to handle the heavy lifting. The size of the address register limits the ...

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 venerable 8-bit microcontroller just keeps chugging along. Despite the performance advantages of its 16- and 32-bit siblings, 8-bit micros still accounted for a substantial percentage of the ...