Microcontrollers are everywhere and their use is growing. But a better understanding of their characteristics and potential use cases can help when it comes to selecting and deploying the technology.

Portsmouth, England – April 30, 2009 – ARM is forecast to pass Power Architecture and x86 to become the leading 32-bit microcontroller and embedded microprocessor architecture in 2011, according ...

MIPS Technologies has added a number of enhancements to its base architecture that make its embedded microprocessors look more like microcontrollers. The main additions have been used in ...

Innatera Nanosystems BV, a leading developer of neuromorphic processors that roughly mimic the functioning of the human brain ...

For microprocessors ... with hardware extensions to the x86 architecture showing up in Intel and AMD processors a decade ago. Microcontrollers and systems on a chip have not had hardware ...

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...

The 16-bit architecture of Philips' 80C51XA is compatible with and shares the programmer's model of the 8051. Operation centers on a 21-word register file. You access these registers, which can ...

The 8-bit Z80 architecture debuted in 1976 and powered ... Zilog will continue to manufacture the eZ80 microcontroller family, which was introduced in 2001 as a faster version of the Z80 series ...