Embedded microcontrollers are the original SoC devices. In the last few years FPGA and PLD manufacturers have proffered the term "System- on- a Programmable Chip" (SOPC) which captures the idea of ...

The number of easily usable and programmable microcontrollers is small, so when selecting one for a project there are only a handful of very popular, well documented chips that most of us reach for.

A typical high-end car of today makes use of 50 to 60 microcontrollers to perform tasks in all areas. Today's high-end microcontrollers in automotive applications are 32bit processors running at 50MHz ...

An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which provides fun and a good building block for playing with collective behaviors. An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which ...

For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio license, so he decided to use it as a police scanner. Since the schematics were available, he cracked it open and ...

Most digital timers require a set of dip switches or rotary BCD encoders to preset their interval. But those techniques consume eight or more inputs from a microcontroller's (MCU's) I/O lines. To ...