ARM’s TrustZone security has been key to its higher-end solutions like the Cortex-A series, but it is now part of the Cortex-M with the advent of the ARMv8-M microcontroller architecture (Fig. 1). The ...

MUNICH, Germany-- November 14, 2006--Broadening customer access to one of the industry’s most popular 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architectures, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

Portsmouth, England – April 30, 2009 – ARM is forecast to pass Power Architecture and x86 to become the leading 32-bit microcontroller and embedded microprocessor architecture in 2011, according ...

Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly ...

The PIC microcontroller family is manufactured by Microchip Technology Inc. Currently they are one of the most popular microcontrollers, used in many commercial and industrial applications. Over 120 ...

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 ...

Infineon Technologies AG today introduced its 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) multicore architecture. The new architecture is the foundation of Infineon’s next generation MCU family that will fulfill the ...

16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) are embedded systems that integrate a central processing unit (CPU), memory, and input/output (I/O) peripherals on a single chip. These MCUs are designed to handle ...