If the microwave is nearing the end of its typical lifespan of about seven to ten years, has a history of issues, or the ...

[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it for himself. He ended up building a little ...

So you’re getting better at programming microcontrollers and now you want to do several things at once? You know better than that, microcontrollers are only capable of processing one thing at a time.

Lattice Semiconductor (www.latticesemi.com) has announced the availability of GNU software development tools for its LatticeMico8 soft processor. The tool chain, including a GCC C-Compiler and Linker, ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a version of the 8051 microcontroller, one of the most commercially used microcontrollers in FPGA with reconfigurable instruction set.

The Open Compute Project (OCP), a nonprofit organization that exchanges data center product designs and best practices across businesses, recently published its Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...