San Jose, Calif.&#151 Renesas Technology America, Inc. is readying its E8a emulator, an ultra-small tool for debugging embeddedsystems and programming Renesas microcontroller's on-chip flash memory.

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 ...

Power management and motor control chip standards are evolving in response to increasingly complex end application demands, and microcontroller units (MCU) are being used to handle more sophisticated ...

Dallas – A line of microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Inc. combines TI's MSP430 flash MCU core and an analog front end for manufacturers developing electronic energy meters with sophisticated ...

[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 ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation responsible for creating the fantastic range of microcontroller systems that have revolutionized learning to program, empowered makers and electronic enthusiasts, industry ...

SAM3U is Code Portable from Atmel's Established ARM7- and ARM9-based MCU Families SAN JOSE, Calif. -- June 1, 2009-- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the SAM3U, the industry's first ...

The very small has been the realm of 8-bit microcontrollers. But Texas Instruments is pushing its MSP430 line where it has never gone before. The 16-bit MSP430F20xx microcontroller is available in a ...