Articles Microcontrollers

Cortex-M0+ is not the newest small, low-power processor and, in fact, some newer offerings may surpass it. However, its broad deployment and mature environment continue to make the processor a compelling offering for low-power applications. So, ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became the brains of seminal computers like the ...

Voltage supervisors have provided analog voltage monitoring to digital circuits for decades. Texas Instruments released the original TL7705 in 1983; it consumed 1.8 mA, came in a plastic dual-inline package (PDIP) and you can still purchase it ...

Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Learn how to hook up an analog input (potentiometer) and output (LED) using a Microchip BLE module. This is the four installment in my project series created to demonstrate using ...

Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Part 1 Part 2 Learn how to use a Microchip Bluetooth module to prototype digital input and digital control peripherals. In this article, the three in a four-part series on Microchip's RN487x Bluetooth modules, ...

Information for configuring your modules and using them before each of the project descriptions that will follow in other articles. Part 1 Using a Console Connection to Configure the RN487x To configure the RN487x, first supply power to the module ...

Aaron Hanson allaboutcircuits.com Learn about the RN487x family of Bluetooth modules and how to configure them for your low-power peripheral projects. If you are developing a small, low-power peripheral, the odds are good that you are considering ...

Uwe Knipping New Electronics There are many reasons why the ARM Cortex-M series of processor cores has come to dominate the market for 32bit microcontrollers. Across the many varieties of Cortex-M cores, design engineers can choose from an array of ...

Wayne Freeman, Microchip Technology Electronic Design The venerable 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) celebrated its 46th birthday this year. Even in middle age, the scrappy, numerically challenged architecture still finds its way into many new embedded ...

Len Sherman EDN The June 23, 1988 issue of EDN included a Maxim Design News insert where we asked Who in their right mind would choose a computer interface standard that uses 12 V supplies, requires expensive connectors, works over a limited ...