There’s some work trying to make an Open Source toolchain for these chips, but [Anders] decided to just go with the manufacturer IDE and programmer. What to do with a three cent microcontroller ...

The new PIC16F131xx microcontrollers in TME’s offer from Microchip are ideal for the evolving and miniaturizing electronic equipment market, offering efficient power management and predictable ...

The M8051EW offers a complete, high performance 8051 core and developmentkit, based around Mentor Graphics’s highly successful M8051W implementation of this popular 8-bit microcontroller. While the ...

Let’s say you’re working on a project, and you need a microcontroller. Which chip do you reach for? Probably the one you’re most familiar with, or at least the one whose programmer is hiding ...