Toshiba announced a flash microcontroller that is specifically designed to meet the needs of modern home appliance applications including washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers. The TMP86FS49 ...

Technology races forward, and it's putting a lot of pressure on embedded-system developers. Competing in markets with increasingly complex applications, developers often face performance shortfalls ...

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” ...

Microcontrollers have come a long way, with 8-bit MCUs demonstrating tremendous resilience and application innovations through advances in memory, power consumption, packaging, and peripherals. 8-bit ...

Every year there is a stampede in the popular industry press to predict that this will be the year that 8-bit microcontroller sales will finally stop growing. Recently, the wide availability of ...

Leading microcontroller and touch solutions provider Atmel CorporationATML recently announced the launch of its new ATtinyArray02/Array04 microcontroller unit (MCU) -- the highest performing, low ...

Microchip Technology Inc. announced a new family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring next-generation analog and digital peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well ...

[Paul] has been working on porting over Arduino libraries for use with the Teensy microcontroller platform. This tends to be pretty simple since they both use the same Atmel chip architecture. But ...

[Craig] sent in a link to this project which manages to implement color tracking on an 8-bit microcontroller at 60 frames per second. That’s some pretty incredible performance, but we’re also not ...