The MSC1200Yx, MSC1201Yx, and MSC1202Yx are completely integrated families of mixed-signal devices incorporating a high-resolution, delta-sigma ADC, 8-bit current output DAC, input multiplexer, ...

I just heard from my friend Tomeq Cwienk, who is the PR and Marketing manager at Digital Core Design (DCD) in Poland. In his email, Tomeq said “Hi Max, could I kindly ask you to publish information ...

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 ...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, April 25, 2012 — Semiconductor IP provider CAST, Inc. now offers the Talos Series of integrated hardware/software systems that facilitate the evaluation of the company’s 8-bit ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a version of the 8051 microcontroller, one of the most commercially used microcontrollers in FPGA with reconfigurable instruction set.

Equipped with a single-cycle, 8051 RISC processor, the VERSA MIX VMX1020 microcontroller is said to deliver an average of eight times more processing power than a standard 8051 MCU. The device ...

Crossware has been careful to take into account the huge legacy of 8051 based designs with its latest starter kit for Philips LPC210X ARM-based microcontrollers. A notable feature of the kit is that ...

How do you tell how much load is on a CPU? On a desktop or laptop, the OS usually has some kind of gadget to display the basics. On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load ...

The latest announcement of a strategic partnership with Renesas opened the door for RISC-V startup SiFive into the club of established semiconductor manufacturers. With its Series 7 processors, SiFive ...

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 ...

Java Processor start-up Digital Communication Technologies (DCT) is setting its sights firmly on becoming a fabless chip company following the appointment of Tony Webster as CEO. “We are going to turn ...