As you may recall, in my previous column, I started to consider why the 30-year-old eight-bit 8051 microcontroller remains a valuable player in the embedded systems game. The days, months, and years ...

Editor's Note: View the Fundamentals of Microcontrollers to catch up on the architectural differences, selection, set up and programming of today's micros. To work through the thicket of choices, it's ...

Embedded World — Nuremburg, Germany -- February 23, 2015 -- A new 16-bit 80251 microcontroller IP core shipping now from CAST, Inc. runs 69.7 times faster than the original 8051 chip, making it the ...

Some people think that programs for microcontrollers like the 8051 that have limited program memory must be written in assembly language rather than a high-level language like C. The executable code ...

Texas Instruments calls its eZ430-F2013 the "world's smallest microcontroller development tool." Residing in a Universal Serial Bus (USB) stick, the device serves as an emulator that allows new users ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has shipped its 500 Millionth AVR(R) Flash Microcontroller. Atmel introduced the AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Architecture in 1997. Over the ...