The boys in Dallas may hate to hear it, but Texas Instruments has a 20-bit microcontroller. Actually, TI's 16-bit MSP430X architecture incorporates a bank of registers that can be manipulated as ...

On Tuesday (Feb. 3) Dolphin Integration SA of Meylan, France will launch a 16-bit silicon IP microcontroller said to be fully binary code compatible with 8-bit 80C51 architectures. Called Flip (for ...

The 8-bit PIC has made its mark as a mainstream architecture. To-morrow's PIC is moving up to a 16-bit implementation with added DSP functionality. Proprietary PIC vendor Microchip is developing the ...

The start of the much-anticipated death of 16-bit processors is upon us. Because of insufficient forecasted demand, March 30, 2007, is the final date that Intel will accept orders for its MCS51, ...

The S12XF family features four highly integrated MCUs offering a variety of memory configurations and Freescale’s performance-boosting XGATE coprocessor. Package options range from the 112-pin ...

Freescale Semiconductor, the leading supplier of semiconductors to the automotive industry, is now shipping its popular S12 16-bit automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) at a rate of more than 100 million ...