Articles Microcontrollers - 3

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 ...

John Donovan Electronic Products When MCU power consumption first started becoming a top priority, designers could simply look at datasheets to compare active power, hopefully all at the same frequency, and make a judgment call based on that. ...

Ronak Desai, Cypress Semiconductors This article explores design techniques and challenges for implementing an electronic bike (E-Bike) built using a microcontroller or Programmable System on Chip (PSoC). Current E-Bike systems use a ...

Maury Wright, Electronic Products Digi-Key Designers working with microcontrollers (MCUs) have come to rely heavily on flash memory for code storage because IC makers have scaled the manufacturing processes for the nonvolatile memory and are ...

Lee H. Goldberg, Electronic Products Digi-Key MCUs currently powering many consumer products and embedded systems are now being asked to support various digital audio functions that used to be handled by DSPs, ASSPs, or other dedicated silicon. ...

Part 1 16-bit The internal 8-bit architectures work well, but if mixed-signal resolutions exceed 8 bits, a 16-bit core may be a good approach. Take for example the Texas Instruments MSP430G2230IDR 16-bit mixed-signal controller packaged in an 8-pin ...

With the ever-continuing push for higher functional integration, complex MCU packages with hundreds of pins are now commonplace. Chipmakers are taking advantage of the high-pin-count parts to fit everything possible either on chip or around the ...