Articles - Microcontrollers - 2

Mike Szczys hackaday.com Microchip has unveiled a new dev board called the Curiosity Development Board. I had my first look at this at Bay Area Maker Faire back in May but was asked not to publicize the hardware since it wasn’t officially ...

Mark Ainsworth and Ranjith Mundoor, Cypress Semiconductor Embedded An 8- or 16-bit CPU may be ideal for your application at present. However, to stay competitive, you need to differentiate your product with continuous enhancements, including new ...

I like to think I write good code, and I’ve used C and C++ almost since their inception. I admit to incorporating more than one unwanted bug into C applications that were eliminated after sometimes tedious diagnostic sessions. Almost every ...

Shawn Rezaei, ams ECN Active RFID usually operates at 455 MHz, 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz. It is suited to applications such as asset and people tracking, access control, passive keyless entry in cars, parking management systems and ...

Ranjith Parakkal, Uncanny Vision EDN Comparing smart-phone performances - and the SOC and processor cores that drive them - has been a hotly discussed topic of late. More so now, since Intel is trying to challenge ARM in the low-power mobile space ...

Digi-key Touchscreens integrated into an LCD (usually TFT) or as part of a PCB have become the de facto user interface for modern handheld devices. Based mostly on resistive and capacitive technology, these transparent or opaque surfaces replace ...

Sachin Gupta, Cypress Semiconductor Electronic Design Using run-time reconfigurable analog and digital logic can enable greater than 100% utilization of available hardware resources, resulting in a smaller footprint and lower system cost When ...

Digi-Key Accelerometers are a key component in any portable or non-stationary device that needs to respond to motion or device orientation not just game controllers and cell phones but even industrial robots and process control machinery. It ...

This article is part of EDN’s Hot Technologies: Looking ahead to 2014 feature, where EDN editors examine some of the hot trends and technologies in 2013 that promise to shape technology news in 2014 and beyond. The Internet of Things (IoT) ...

Contributed By Publitek European Editors Microcontrollers are running at ever-lower power consumption to open up new applications such as smart lighting and wireless metering. New devices are pushing down power usage and giving engineers many more ...