Articles - Microcontrollers - 4

Atmel AVR lock bits and fuses is one of the topics that may cause some confusion. If you missed something or set one bit wrong, it may lead to failure bricking whole AVR chip. So it is important to understand once and to things right. Despite the ...

There are definitely some hefty words in the title but Texas Instruments (TI) has brought something new to the motor control table with its InstaSpin-FOC (field-oriented-control) solution. It is a combination of hardware and software that supports ...

Volker Rzehak, Texas Instruments Texas Instruments recently announced a new microcontroller family that implements FRAM as non-volatile memory instead of Flash, today's most common programmable, non-volatile memory technology. The paper explains ...

Jack G. Ganssle Embedded Systems Design 64-bit CPUs and VLIW architectures slam massive amounts of data around via wide parallel buses. Processors today are so fast and so hungry for data that chip designers do horrible things to push bits into the ...

Part 1 - NXP Semiconductors LPC4000 - Real-time aids data processing STMicroelectronics STM32 Quick, artful memory STMicroelectronics is another company that soon embraced the ARM Cortex-M3 in microcontrollers with its STM32 product line after ...

Tom Starnes Digi-Key Flash memory completely dominates microcontrollers (MCUs) now, but memory considerations have become more complex as the processors have advanced to 32-bit architectures and peripherals have become much more capable. It is easy ...

Maury Wright, Electronic Products While engineers often think about a microcontroller (MCU) in terms of integrating the peripherals needed for the application at hand, there are many instances in which adding functionality external to the MCU is ...

A new generation of 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers is driving down the power consumption of devices and opening up new opportunities in smart control systems. The ARM Cortex-M3 processor is a good example of one of the latest generation of ...

Mul tiple, on-chip, production-ready, industrial Ethernet and fieldbus communication protocols eliminate the need for an external ASIC/FPGA and save 30 percent on BOM costs One scalable, low-power ARM Cortex-A8 processor platform (275 MHz to 720 ...

Hercules safety microcontrollers are based on TI ’s 20+ years of safety-critical system expertise, industry collaboration and proven hardware for the automotive market. The platform consists of three ARM Cortex-based microcontroller families ...