It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps ...

According to Texas Instruments, it has developed the smallest microcontroller available, expanding the company's Arm Cortex-M0+ MSPM0 MCU portfolio. The 1.38-mm 2 wafer chip-scale packaged (WCSP) ...

When you think of Arduino, your mind immediately pictures an Arduino Uno with its teal color, bulky USB port, and long microcontroller chip sitting on a socket, and you're not alone. The Uno is such a ...

TI today announced the world’s smallest microcontroller (MCU), delivering optimized size and performance for compact applications such as medical wearables and personal electronics. The new MCU is 38% ...

This application note discusses some advanced solutions for simple applications using Microchip’s 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This document covers the features and peripherals of 8-bit MCUs, ...

Vendors of 32-bit microcontrollers were out in force at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose in April. So were real-time operating-system (RTOS) vendors eyeing this lucrative platform. Linux ...

We used to need SBCs for these projects; modern microcontrollers handle them more easily and inexpensively while being easier to maintain.