Low-cost 8051-compatible 8-bit microcontrollers have up to 32 Kbytes of on-chip flash, a dual-block flash architecture that supports in-application programming, SoftLock security feature, 1 Kbyte of ...

Microchip Technology Inc. announced two new 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers—the PIC16F527 and PIC16F570, which combine the ease-of-use of a PIC MCU with low-cost analog peripherals to create a ...

T hanks to its reconfigurable peripherals, the original programmable system-ona- chip (PSoC) from Cypress Semiconductor is one of the major microcontroller advances of the past decade. However, its ...

Eight-bit microcontrollers-called that because they operate on data eight bits at a time-continue to dominate the microcontroller market, although 32-bit controllers are showing faster market growth.

The year Intel rolled out its first 8-bit microprocessor, Apollo 17 landed on the Moon. The Volkswagen Beetle became the best-selling car in history, surpassing the Ford Model T. And “The Godfather” ...

Arm and its partners are looking to give 8- and 16-bit microcontroller vendors fits with its Cortex M0 architecture. This optimized implementation of the Cortex M1 is designed to run on FPGAs. Its ...

Big changes are happening in the microcontroller market. That statement alone should give pause for most design engineers and raise their level of skepticism. In the past, microcontrollers were a ...

Broadening customer access to one of the industry’s most popular 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architectures, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has initiated a ColdFire® licensing ...

Microcontrollers exist in almost everything, but can RISC-V satisfy the needs of this market? Is it small enough to replace 8-bit processors? What might help people migrate to a more modern processor ...

As amazing as CircuitPython is, it hasn’t yet been ported to any 8-bit microcontrollers. [Chris Heo] was unsatisfied with his inability to use Python on his 8-bit ATmega4808 AVR, so he worked out a ...

8048 8 bit microcontroller introduced in 1976. Marked on top: "i / P8048AH 0901 / 8331 / 95855-391 / Intel '82", on bottom: 8048AH / 090I-SS / 8329 / iPhillippines." Popular name MCS-48. Used in the ...