Why should microcontroller (MCU) “bit size” matter to a system designer? After all, developers are looking for an MCU that does the job for a particular application at a reasonable price. Next on the ...

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, has announced eight new members of the cost-effective PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, which extend the ...

Microchip’s dsPIC and PIC24 line of 16-bit microcontrollers has become every popular even as some concentrate on 8- and 32-bit product lines. Well, there are plenty of applications where 16-bit ...

Users of portable devices could soon be worrying less about recharging their batteries. NEC Electronics America Inc. Monday announced a line of 16-bit “all flash” microcontroller units (MCU), meant ...

Texas Instruments’ (TI) latest MSP430 microcontrollers utilize FRAM for code and data. The unified memory approach simplifies development since code space can be traded off for more data RAM. FRAM ...