San Jose, Calif.&#151 Renesas Technology America, Inc. is readying its E8a emulator, an ultra-small tool for debugging embeddedsystems and programming Renesas microcontroller's on-chip flash memory.

This article presents an introduction of microcontrollers as the first part on the series Embedded Systems Programming. It describes the structure and operation of the microcontroller, and the purpose ...

If you want to use the reset pin as I/O, you will need to use High Voltage Parallel Programming to talk to your chip. Even if you don’t decide to do that, at some point you’re going to screw up and ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckled ...

Why didn’t they do this sooner? That’s the question some embedded engineers designing with microcontrollers (MCUs) are asking about the idea of adding analog signal-chain components in MCUs. With ...

SAM3U is Code Portable from Atmel's Established ARM7- and ARM9-based MCU Families SAN JOSE, Calif. -- June 1, 2009-- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the SAM3U, the industry's first ...

The chips used in automotive electronics mainly fall into four categories: master control chips (MCU/SoC), power chips (IGBT), image sensor chips (CIS), and storage chips (Flash). As the core chip for ...

Digital signal processors (DSPs) earn their living by doing certain analog jobs better than analog circuitry. In some cases, where analog circuits can’t even be considered for a task due to cost or ...