There was a time when microprocessors were slow and expensive devices that needed piles of support chips to run, so engineers came up with ingenious tricks using extra hardware preprocessing inputs to ...

One of the nicest amenities of interpreted programming languages is that you can test out the code that you’re developing in a shell, one line at a time, and see the results instantly. No matter how ...

The Atmel AVR microcontroller ATtiny2313 or AT90S2313 is used to build an electronic combination lock known as Code Lock, which will be used for access control. The Atmel AVR microcontroller ...

The xcc700 is a very small, lightweight C compiler designed specifically for the ESP32 microcontroller. It is like a mini ...

PSoC Express is an extension software package for Cypress' flash-based, mixed-signal microcontroller chips, the base package being the “Designer” option. PSoC chips contain a proprietary ...

Fig 1. Core memory used to be ubiquitous. Fig 2. Texas Instruments’ 16-bit MSP430FR57xx looks like most microcontrollers except it only has one memory block. Magnetic memory such as core memory used ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic tool, especially for general-purpose computing and media projects. But when I’m working on simple or embedded tasks, I often find myself reaching for a microcontroller ...