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 ...

The venerable 8-bit microcontroller just keeps chugging along. Despite the performance advantages of its 16- and 32-bit siblings, 8-bit micros still accounted for a substantial percentage of the ...

NEC Electronics announced the Kx1+ Series, the newest 8-bit member of the K_Line microcontroller (MCU) family. The 78K0/Kx1+ Series represents the first 8-bit MCUs offered by NEC Electronics to employ ...

With the rise of the ARM processor architecture and the widespread adoption of 32-bit microcontrollers it would be all too easy to assume that as 32-bit chips fall in price and power then the argument ...

The 8-bit microcontroller celebrated its 44th birthday this year, but even though its making its way into many new applications, some very common myths surround the elder statesman of the embedded ...

[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 ...

NEC introduced a low-power 8-bit microcontroller which running off a 2.7V supply operates at full speed, consumes 18µA (typical) and has a standby current of 0.9µA (typical). The µPD789881 also ...

NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and its subsidiary in Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, announced the development of two new series of microcontrollers (MCUs), the µPD789863 and the ...

[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 ...

Sure, Project Natal is the hotness and a little bird tells us PlayStation Move is pretty bodacious, but you don't have to buy a fancy game console to sooth your motion-tracking blues. When students at ...