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 ...

Eight-bit microcontrollers-called that because they operate on data eight bits at a time-continue to dominate the microcontroller market, although 32-bit controllers are showing faster market growth.

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

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

[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 ...

The humble 8-bit microcontroller has a long and prosperous life ahead of it, says Ross Bannatyne of Silicon Labs If you looked up 8-bit microcontroller in a dictionary in 1995, you would find verbiage ...

MILPITAS, Calif. & BIEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ: IXYS), an international power semiconductor and IC company, has completed its previously announced acquisition of ...

This article presents the aspects of building USB3.0 application using low performance 8-bit microcontroller taking an 8051 derivative as an example. First it gives a technical overview of the USB ...