Microcontroller or Microprocessor: Making the Right Choice. ... Harvard architecture is especially useful for real-time applications and where high performance is needed.

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 ...

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 ...

The M51xx cores implement the latest MIPS Release5 Architecture, incorporating hardware virtualization for increased security, IP protection and reliability for a wide range of applications ...

The NEC K Series comprises the K0, K0S, and K4 families, all of which derive from a common architecture. NEC's K0 family, with more than 200 versions, represents the backbone of the K series. The K4 ...

Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024. The 8 ...

Arm and its partners are looking to give 8- and 16-bit microcontroller vendors fits with its Cortex M0 architecture. This optimized implementation of the Cortex M1 is designed to run on FPGAs. Its ...

Freescale Semiconductor's Qorivva mcus reached 'unprecedented' levels of performance in a recent industry standard automotive benchmark test. The Qorivva 32bit MPC5674F achieved a benchmark score of ...